ʻūrī
See also: ʻurī and Appendix:Variations of "uri"
Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *kuli (compare with Samoan ulī, Tongan kulī, Tuamotuan kurio and kuri, Hawaiian ʻīlio)[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kuli (compare with Fijian koli[1]). Doublet of ʻurī.
References
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kulii”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Further reading
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “ʻūrī” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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