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Rapa Nui
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *pa-tia. Cognates include Tahitian pātia and Maori pātia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpaː.ˈti.a/
- Hyphenation: pā‧ti‧a
Noun
pātia
- spear
Derived terms
References
- Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 180
- Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 200