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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *saa-kalo (compare with Tahitian hāʻaro and ʻaʻaro both “to scrape from a cavity”; Tongan hakalo (“to scrape , coconut grater”); Samoan saʻalo (“to scrape”)) affixing *kalo₃ from Proto-Oceanic *kalo or *karut (“to scratch with fingernails, to claw at”) (compare with Fijian kadru, also doublet of raku)[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (“rub against, scrape, scratch”) (compare with Malay garut (“to grind against one another, to scrape”) and garu “to scratch”).[2]
Verb
hākaro
- to hollow out
Adjective
hākaro
- hollowed
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “saa-kalo”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 237
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “hākaro”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 37
- “hākaro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.