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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kiinaki (compare with Tahitian ʻīnaʻi “animal protein”, Samoan ʻinaʻi)[1] affixing *kina₃ (see Tongan kina).[2]
Noun
kīnaki
- sauce, condiment, relish
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 148
- ^ “kiinaki”, “kina₃” (2011). Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill (eds.). POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online.
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kīnaki”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 138
- “kīnaki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.