potipoti

Maori

Etymology 1

Reduplication of poti “angle, corner”

Noun

potipoti

  1. box
    1. a special kind of compartment with a rope-hinged lid used by tohunga

Etymology 2

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Noun

potipoti

  1. conch trumpet
  2. sand flea, sandhopper

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “potipoti”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 345
  • “potipoti” 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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