tariʻa

See also: taria and tari'a

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taliŋa (compare with Māori taringa, Fijian daliga), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taliŋa (compare with Malay telinga).[1]

Noun

tariʻa

  1. ear

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “taliga”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
  • “tariʻa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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