rouru

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lau-qulu – compare with Tongan louʻulu.[1][2]

Noun

rouru

  1. hair

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lau-qulu”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 93
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