ʻutu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "utu"

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kutu (compare with Maori kutu, Hawaiian ʻuku), from Proto-Oceanic *kutu (compare with Fijian kutu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu (compare with Malay kutu, Tagalog kuto), from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.[1]

Noun

ʻutu

  1. louse

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kutu1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

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