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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tapaya (“coconut or gourd container or bottle”).[1][2][3]
Noun
tahā
- calabash, container using dried shell of bottle gourd fruit
- Synonym: hue
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 440
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tafaa”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 75
Further reading
- “tahā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.