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Rapa Nui
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *fafine (“woman”). Cognates include Hawaiian wahine (“woman”) and Maori wahine (“woman”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaː.hi.ne/
- Hyphenation: hā‧hi‧ne
Preposition
hāhine
- near
Synonyms
References
- Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 205
- “hāhine”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN
- Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 112