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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *quluŋ-an (“headrest” – compare with Tahitian uruʻa, Samoan uluga and aluga, Tongan ʻolunga)[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulun-an “head rest” (compare with Coastal Kadazan tuhunan, Tagalog ulunan and unan, Cebuano ulonan) affixed from *qulun₂ “to rest one's head”.[2][3]
Noun
urunga
- pillow
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 581
- ^ See:
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “quluga”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “qaluga.2”, 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, pages 112-3
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “urunga”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 571
- “urunga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.