kōtuku
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *koo-tuku (“heron”).
Noun
kōtuku
Derived terms
- kōtuku ngutupapa (“royal spoonbill”)
- kōtuku rerenga tahi (“rare visitor”)
Related terms
Further reading
- “kōtuku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “[https://pollex.eva.mpg.de/entry/
- koo-tuku.a/ *koo-tuku.a]”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559