tūī

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tui"

Maori

Etymology

Compare Proto-Fijic *tuitui "hawk".

Noun

tūī

  1. tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) a New Zealand bird
    Synonym: kōkō

Descendants

  • → English: tui

Further reading

  • “tūī” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.