ʻurī

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See also: ʻūrī and Appendix:Variations of "uri"

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kuli (compare with Samoan ulī, Tongan kulī, Tuamotuan kurio and kuri, Hawaiian ʻīlio)^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kuli (compare with Fijian koli^[1]). Doublet of ʻūrī.

Noun

ʻurī

dog

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kulii”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
“ʻurī” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

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