tariʻa

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See also: taria, and tari'a

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taliŋa (compare with Maori taringa, Fijian daliga), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taliŋa (compare with Malay telinga).[1]

Noun

tariʻa

  1. ear

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “taliga”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

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