tiki

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English

Modern male tiki, located at the entry of the Papuakeikaha Arboretum, island of Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori tiki (figurine).

Pronunciation

Noun

tiki (plural tikis)

  1. Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Asi

Noun

tiki

  1. house lizard

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ti‧ki

Noun

tiki

  1. the common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
  2. (by extension) a gecko; any lizard of the family Gekkonidae

Chuukese

Verb

tiki

  1. (transitive) to poke, to press
  2. to put a dot on

Esperanto

Etymology

From tiko +‎ -i.

Pronunciation

Verb

tiki (present tikas, past tikis, future tikos, conditional tikus, volitive tiku)

  1. to tic

Hiligaynon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tikˈkiʔ/, /tikˈkɛʔ/

Noun

tiki

  1. common house gecko

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *tiki (compare with Tahitian tiʻi and Hawaiian kiʻi).[1][2]

Noun

tiki

  1. figurine, carved figure
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

tiki

  1. to fetch, to get

Etymology 3

Verb

tiki

  1. to fail

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 510
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tiki.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

  • tiki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tiki f

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tik

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch een tikje.

Pronoun

tiki

  1. few
  2. a bit

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English stick.

Pronunciation

Noun

tiki

  1. stick, rod

Swahili

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tick.

Noun

tiki (n class, plural tiki)

  1. tick mark, check mark ()

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

tiki

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) completely (in the context of tiredness)

Swazi

Etymology

Borrowed from English tickey.

Noun

tíki class 1a (plural bótíki class 2a)

  1. tickey

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

tiki

  1. (transitive) to cane someone

Conjugation

Conjugation of tiki
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totiki fotiki mitiki
2nd notiki nitiki
3rd Masculine otiki itiki, yotiki
Feminine motiki
Neuter itiki
- archaic

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yámana

Verb

tiki

  1. to see