pōtaka

Maori

Etymology

From porotaka compound of poro (“block, slab”) +‎ taka (“to revolve, to encircle”).

Noun

pōtaka

  1. spinning top

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pōtaka”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 344
  • “pōtaka” 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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