tau-

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tau-[1]

Prefix

tau-

  1. prefix indicating reciprocal action, added to a verb usually reduplicated
    tauwehe: separation, schism
    taumarumaru: to overshadow, lit. ‘to shade (maru) one another’
    tauhutihuti: to pluck or pull on each other's hairs
    taupatupatu: to beat (patu) or debate one another
    taunekeneke: interactive, lit. ‘to gradually move (nekeneke) towards one another’
    tauomaoma: to race or compete, lit. ‘to run on one another’
    tauawhiawhi: to help (awhi) one another
    tauonioni: to make love, lit. ‘to wriggle (oni) on one another’

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tau-.7a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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