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Amis
Noun
poki
- female genitalia
Icelandic
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse poki, from Proto-Germanic *pukô.
Pronunciation
Noun
poki m (genitive singular poka, nominative plural pokar)
- bag, sack, pouch
- (zoology) pouch (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Declension
Derived terms
Maori
Etymology
Cognate of Hawaiian poʻi “crest of a breaking wave; lid, to cover with a lid; to cup one's hands”; Tahitian poʻi “lid, cover” and popoʻi “to cup one's hands”; Tuamotuan poki “to cover over, to crash”. Maybe semantically related to Fijian tavuki “to capsize ” and vuki “to change direction” thus from Proto-Oceanic *poki. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare with similar parallels in the same language family e.g. semantic connection of Malay membalikkan “to flip or turn over” and terbalik “upside down”.
Verb
poki
- to turn over, to hang or place concave objects (like boats) upside down
- to overtake
- (of a boat) to capsize
- to cover over something (esp. with a lid)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “poki.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 411
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 348
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “poki”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 337
- “poki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Rapa Nui
Noun
poki
- child
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