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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *kaa-pui (compare with Hawaiian ʻāhui (“bunch (of fruit like bananas)”))[1] from Proto-Polynesian from Proto-Oceanic *pui₁ (“bunch of fruit”) (compare with Hawaiian hui (“troupe, association, society, club”) and Tahitian hui (“group”) plus Hawaiian huihui (“cluster, collection, bunch”) and Tahitian huihui (“collection”)).[2] Doublet of hui and huihui.
Noun
kāhui
- group, cluster
- flock, herd, swarm
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 113
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kaa-fui”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Further reading
- “kāhui” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.