ʻahuru

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Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *haŋafulu (compare with Hawaiian anahulu (period of ten days), Maori ngahuru (ten), Tongan hongofulu), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian sagavulu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq (compare with Malay puluh (-ty) and sepuluh (ten), Tagalog sampulo (ten)), from Proto-Austronesian *puluq.[1]


Tahitian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ʻahuru

Numeral

ʻahuru

  1. ten
    Synonym: hōʻē ʻahuru
  2. -ty

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “hagafulu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

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