kōhua

Maori

Alternative forms

Etymology

From kohu “oven” from Proto-Polynesian *kofu “to wrap food in leaves”[1] influenced by a homograph with the sense of “concave, hollow” from a different root; sense of pot is modern evolution from “oven for cooking” with influence from kōhue.[2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koː.hu.a/, [koː.hʉ.ɐ]

Noun

kōhua

  1. boiler, pot (any metal cooking vessel for boiling food)
  2. (archaic) a trough or vessel dug out of a wooden trunk for boiling food using heated stones (pot boilers).[3]

Verb

kōhua (passive kōhuatia)

  1. to cook by boiling, to boil, to poach

References

  1. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 154-5
  2. ^ Anderson, Atholl, Green, Kaye, Leach, Foss (2007) Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture, in Honour of Janet M. Davidson, Otago University Press, →ISBN, pages 56-7
  3. ^ Graham, George, Hongi, Hare, Large, J. T. (1923) “Notes and Queries”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society‎[1], volume 32, number 1(125), →ISSN, pages 47–50

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kōhua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 148
  • “kōhua” 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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