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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *te-kau (compare with Hawaiian kaʻau (“forty”), Tahitian taʻau (“twenty”) and Tongan tekau) from Proto-Polynesian *kau₂ (“group”) (see Hawaiian ʻau, Tahitian ʻau, Samoan ʻau (“group, bunch, shoal, school”) and Tongan kau (“bunch”)).
Numeral
tekau
- ten
- Synonym: ngahuru
- (archaic) twenty
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “te-kau”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 503-4
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kau.2b”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Further reading
- “tekau” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.