ngahuru

Māori

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ŋaˈhuru/ [ŋɐˈhʉɾʉ]

Etymology 1

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Noun

ngahuru

  1. autumn
Synonyms

References

Further reading

  • “ngahuru” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *haŋafulu (compare with Hawaiian anahulu (“period of ten days”), Tahitian ʻahuru (“ten”), Tongan hongofulu), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian sagavulu),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq (compare with Malay puluh (“-ty”) and sepuluh (“ten”), Tagalog sampulo (“ten”)), from Proto-Austronesian *puluq.[2]

Numeral

ngahuru

  1. (dialectal) ten
    Synonym: tekau
Derived terms

(all dialectal):

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 275
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “hagafulu”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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