maitaʻi
Tahitian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *maqitaki; cognate with Tuamotuan maitaki, Rarotongan meitaki, Rapa maitaki, Austral maitaʻi, North Marquesan meitaʻi, South Marquesan meitaʻi, Hawaiian maikaʻi, Maori maitai.[1]
Adjective
[edit]maitaʻi (plural maitataʻi) (Raapoto spelling maitaì)
Usage notes
[edit]Do not confuse with mataʻi.
Derived terms
[edit]- tāmā‘a maita‘i (“bon appetit”)
References
[edit]- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “maitaki”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Further reading
[edit]- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “maitaʻi” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.