puaʻahorofenua
Tahitian
Etymology
From puaʻa (“pig”) + horo (“to run”) + fenua (“land”) altogether “pig dashing across land”.[1]
Noun
puaʻahorofenua
Descendants
- Tahitian: horofenua
- Tuamotuan: puarenua, puārehenua, pūakahorohenua
References
- ^ Ellis, William (1829), Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands, page 149:
- I saw crowds of natives repairing towards the place where the horse had been tied up, in charge of one of Pomare's favourite chiefs...the multitude appeared highly delighted when they saw the animal walking and running along the beach...They called him buaa-horo-fenua...; land-running pig...
- Charpentier, Jean-Michel; François, Alexandre (2015), Atlas linguistique de la Polynésie française — Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia, →ISBN, page 2046.
Further reading
- Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon][1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
- “puaʻahorofenua” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.