tāhuhu

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taqo-fufu (compare with Tongan toʻufufu)[1] affixing *fufu from Proto-Oceanic *pupuŋan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubuŋ (“ridge of roof, mountain” – compare with Malay bumbung, Tagalog bubóng, Ilocano bobóng all “roof”).[2][3] Also reanalyzable as tā “stalk” + huhu – compare with Malay tulang bumbung “ridgepole”, lit. “bone of roof” (corresponding to tua + huhu).

Noun

tāhuhu

  1. ridgepole
  2. horizontal beam supporting a kite's wings
  3. lineage[4]
    tāhuhu kōrero: history
    tāhuhu tangata: curriculum vitae, résumé

Adjective

tāhuhu

  1. eldest
  2. chief

Derived terms

  • tāhū

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 444-5
  2. ^ See “taqufufu”, “taqo.2b” in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011).
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 53-4
  4. ^ Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata (March 2019) “The Terminology of Whakapapa”, in Journal of the Polynesian Society‎[2], volume 128, number 1, pages 23-4

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tāhū, tāhuhu, tāuhu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 420
  • “tāhuhu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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