taimaha
Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *taimafa (“heavy”). Cognate with Maori taimaha.
Adjective
taimaha
References
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “taimaha” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “TAI-MAFA”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559