kumikumi

English

Noun

kumikumi (plural kumikumis or kumikumi)

  1. Alternative form of kamokamo.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kumikumi (“beard”) (compare with Hawaiian ʻumiʻumi (“beard, mane”), Tongan kumukumu (“chin”))[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kumi (compare with Fijian kumi (“beard, chin”)) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kumis (compare with Malay kumis (“moustache”)).[2][3]

Noun

kumikumi

  1. beard, moustache, whiskers
  2. bristles

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 183
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kumi-kumi”, 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 (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 136-7

Further reading

  • “kumikumi” 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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