kukū

See also: kuku, Kuku, and kūkū

Maori

Etymology

Variation of kuku with elongation of final vowel to avoid conflation with a homonym that means pincers, from Proto-Polynesian *kuku “mussel, Mytilidae” (compare with Rarotongan kuku, Samoan ʻuʻu, Tongan kuku)[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kukur “to scrape, any mussel with shells used for this purpose” from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuDkuD “to scrape; rasp; grate” (compare with Malay kukur “to scrape [of coconut], to scratch [of itches], to rasp”, Tagalog kudkod “grating (of coconut), shaving or scraping [of ice]”).[2][3]

Verb

kukū

  1. to grate, to scrape
    Synonym: kuku
  2. to make a grating sound

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 181
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kuku.2”, 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, Canberra: Australian National University
    • volume 1: Material Culture, page 161 →ISBN
    • volume 4: Animals, pages 235-7 →ISBN

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kukū”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 180-1
  • “kukū” 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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