makawe

Maori

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *makawe (“hair, strand of hair” – compare with Hawaiian maʻawe “thread, strand” and Samoan maʻave).[1][2] Likely related to kawe “tentacle”. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

makawe

  1. hair
    1. ringlet; a lock of it
      Synonym: io

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 199
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ma-kawe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “makawe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 197
  • “makawe” 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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