kōtuku

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *koo-tuku (“heron”).

Noun

kōtuku

  1. great egret

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “kōtuku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
  • Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “*koo-tuku.a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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