wahawaha

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Noun

wahawaha

  1. cloud

Synonyms

References

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication of waha from Proto-Polynesian *waha (compare with Hawaiian waha, Rapa Nui haha, and Tahitian vaha)[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *fafa (compare Samoan fafa) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba₁ (compare with Malay bawa (“to carry, to bring (in general)”), Tagalog babá (“to piggyback”))[3]

Verb

wahawaha

  1. to carry on one's back

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 586-7
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waha.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fafa.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • “wahawaha” 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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