ngahuru
Māori
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[edit]Etymology 1
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Noun
[edit]ngahuru
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- John C. Moorfield (2011), “ngahuru”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
Etymology 2
[edit]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]
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Numeral
[edit]ngahuru
Derived terms
[edit]- ira ngahuru (decimal point)
- ngahuru mano (10,000)
(all dialectal):
- ngahuru mā tahi (11)
- ngahuru mā rua (12)
- ngahuru mā toru (13)
- ngahuru mā whā (14)
- ngahuru mā rima (15)
- ngahuru mā ono (16)
- ngahuru mā whitu (17)
- ngahuru mā waru (18)
- ngahuru mā iwa (19)
References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “ngahuru”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 275
- ^ 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 551–9