tuhi

See also: tuhí and tühi

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Oceanic *tusuq-i (compare with Samoan tusi, Tongan tuhuʻi “to point”, Fijian dusi “to indicate, to point”) variant of *tusu (compare with Tongan tuhu “finger, to point”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq (compare with Malay tunjuk “to point” and tuju “to head somewhere”, Iban tunjuk “finger, to point”, Tagalog turo “pointing, guiding, teaching”).[1][2]

Verb

tuhi (passive tuhia)

  1. to point at

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tusua”, 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 178

Etymology 2

From Proto-Oceanic *tusi (“to mark or adorn” – compare with Samoan tusi, Tongan tuhi “streak”, Fijian tusi “fabric mark or pattern”).[1]

Verb

tuhi (passive tuhingia)

  1. to draw
  2. to write

Noun

tuhi

  1. pattern, adornment

References

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

Derived terms

  • tuhituhi

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tuhi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 526
  • “tuhi” 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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