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Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *paki (compare with Samoan faʻi, Tongan faki)[1][2]
Noun
whaki
- to pluck, to pick (of fruit)
- to harvest
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 607-8
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 137
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “whaki”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 571
- “whaki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.