whānako

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *faanako (compare with Tahitian fānaʻo “chance, to have a chance”), from Proto-Oceanic *panako from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panakaw affixed from *takaw (compare with Tagalog takaw “eager, greed, gluttony” and nakaw “stealing”)[1][2]

Verb

whānako

  1. to steal

Adjective

whānako

  1. thieving

Noun

whānako

  1. theft, steal
  2. thief

See also

  • whēnako

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “faanako”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 423-5

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “whānako”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 572
  • “whānako” 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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