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Maori
Etymology
para (“yellow, dirt, silt”) + uri (“dark, deep ”) thus ‘dark yellow’ – compare with paraumu “topsoil” (lit. ‘soil of the umu’) and parā “to turn yellow of dirt, to ripe”. Similar connections of yellow and brown can be found within other languages of the same Austronesian family: Malay for example has kuning tanah (lit. “dirt yellow”) referring to hex colour #eeb261 which can be perceived as brownish to Westerners.
Adjective
parauri
- dark (of skin colour)
Noun
parauri
- brown
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dodgson, Neil, Chen, Victoria, Zahido, Meimuna (2024 November) “The colonisation of the colour pink: variation and change in Māori’s colour lexicon”, in Linguistics, →DOI, pages 23-4, 30
- ^ Zati Hazira Ismail, Abdul Mutaa'li Othman (2020 December) “The Traditional Malay Colour Palette for Contemporary Design References”, in Jurnal Pengajian Melayu, Universiti Malaya, →DOI, page 42
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “parauri”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 308
- “parauri” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.