ʻahuru
Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *haŋafulu (compare with Hawaiian anahulu (“period of ten days”), Maori ngahuru (“ten”), Tongan hongofulu), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian sagavulu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq (compare with Malay puluh (“-ty”) and sepuluh (“ten”), Tagalog sampulo (“ten”)), from Proto-Austronesian *puluq.[1]
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Derived terms
References
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “hagafulu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Further reading
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “ʻahuru” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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