kāhui

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kaa-pui (compare with Hawaiian ʻāhui (“bunch (of fruit like bananas)”))[1] from Proto-Polynesian from Proto-Oceanic *pui₁ (“bunch of fruit”) (compare with Hawaiian hui (“troupe, association, society, club”) and Tahitian hui (“group”) plus Hawaiian huihui (“cluster, collection, bunch”) and Tahitian huihui (“collection”)).[2] Doublet of hui and huihui.

Noun

kāhui

  1. group, cluster
  2. flock, herd, swarm

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 113
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kaa-fui”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • “kāhui” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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