āniwaniwa

Māori

Alternative forms

aaniwaniwa

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nuanua – compare with Tahitian ānuanua, Samoan nuanua.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaːˌniwaniwa/ [ˈɑːˌniwɐniwɐ]

Noun

āniwaniwa

rainbow

References

^ Tregear, Edward (1891), Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 12
^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2008), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 148

Biggs, Bruce [Grandison] (1990), English–Maori, Maori–English Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, EBSCOhost edsebk, Goodreads, Google Books, Library Thing, Nexus/STC, page 96
Williams, William (1852), “āniwaniwa”, in A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language, and a Concise Grammar; to Which is Added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences, 2nd edition, London: Williams and Norgate, page 5: “Aníwaníwa, s. Rainbow.”

Further reading

Williams, Herbert William (1917), “āniwaniwa”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 12
“āniwaniwa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.