kāwai

Maori

Etymology

From elongation of kawe from Proto-Polynesian *kawe₁ (compare with Tongan kave, Tahitian ʻave, Samoan ʻave)[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kawe from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (compare with Cebuano gaway).[2][3]

Noun

kāwai

  1. tentacle
    Synonyms: kawe, kawekawe
  2. tendril, shoot
  3. lineage, pedigree

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 140
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kawe.1a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 201

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kāwai”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 129
  • “kāwai” 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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