whiri
Maori
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Hawaiian hili (“to braid, to plait, to turn aside”), Tahitian firi (“to plait”) and ‘ōfiri (“to wrap around”), Tongan fili and Samoan fili),[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliN (compare with Malay pilin).[3]
Verb
whiri
- to twist
- to weave
- Ko ngā turu o aua taonga he mea uhi ki te kākahu pūtiotio, he mea whiri.
- The chairs of that furniture were covered in rough woven cloth.
- to spin
- to curl or fold one's hands
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 624-5
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “firi.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 84, 286
Etymology 2
From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Tongan fili, Samoan fili and filifili), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian vili (“to pick, to gather”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili, Malagasy fidy), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.[1][2]
Verb
whiri
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[2], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 624-5
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fili.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Further reading
- “whiri” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.