tāturi

Maori

Etymology

From taeturi from Proto-Polynesian *taqe-tuli (compare with Rarotongan tāturi, Tahitian tāturi, Tongan teʻetuli) combining *taqe + *tuli corresponding to tae turi “deafening excrement”; compare with similar patterns in related languages like Hawaiian kūkaenalo “beeswax” (lit. “bee excrement”, corresponds to tūtae ngaro).[1][2] Doublet of taeturi.

Noun

tāturi

  1. earwax
    Synonym: taeturi

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “taqe-tuli.1”, 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, pages 197-8

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tāturi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 462
  • “tāturi” 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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