pāua

See also: paua

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *faasua — compare with Hawaiian paua (“any nacred bivalve”)[1][2]

Noun

pāua

  1. Any of the three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Haliotidae (sole genus Haliotis), known in the United States and Australia as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells.

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 329
  2. ^ Wilson, William H. (December 2012) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎[2], volume 51, number 2, page 305
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