iʻi

Rarotongan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *ipi (cognate with Tahitian ihi, Tongan ifi, Samoan ifi, and Fijian ivi).[1][2]

Noun

iʻi

  1. Inocarpus fagifer – Polynesian chestnut, Tahitian chestnut

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ifi2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 317-8
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