whē

See also: whe

Maori

Etymology

From later borrowing of a word in some related language descendant of Proto-Polynesian *seqe “long insects like mantises, stick insects etc.” (compare with Rarotongan ʻē “Graeffea crouanii”, Samoan sē “grasshopper”, Tongan heʻe “grasshopper, locust”).[1][2][3]

Noun

whē

  1. stick insect esp. Acanthoderus horridus
  2. mantis, praying mantis
    Synonym: rō

References

  1. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 397
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “seqe1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Pond, Wendy (1983) “Solving A Linguistic Murder With The Aid of Entomology”, in The Wētā‎[1], volume 6, number 1, The Entomological Society of New Zealand, page 4

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “whē”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 579
  • “whē” 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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