ʻāuri
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Tahitian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Polynesian *kauquli (cognate with Maori kauri (“Agathis australis”), Samoan ʻauli (“clothing iron”) and ʻauʻauli (“Diospyros samoensis”)) from *kau (“tree”) + *quli (“black”), originally referring to Samoan ebony ("Diospyros samoensis").[1][2]
Noun[edit]
ʻāuri
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “ʻāuri” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.