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Maori
Etymology
From later borrowing of a word in some related language descendant of Proto-Polynesian *seqe “long insects like mantises, stick insects etc.” (compare with Rarotongan ʻē “Graeffea crouanii”, Samoan sē “grasshopper”, Tongan heʻe “grasshopper, locust”).[1][2][3]
Noun
whē
- stick insect esp. Acanthoderus horridus
- mantis, praying mantis
- Synonym: rō
References
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 397
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “seqe1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Pond, Wendy (1983) “Solving A Linguistic Murder With The Aid of Entomology”, in The Wētā, volume 6, number 1, The Entomological Society of New Zealand, page 4
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “whē”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 579
- “whē” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.