pohe
Māori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Tahitian pohe[1][2] related to pō “night, darkness” ultimately from Proto-Oceanic *boŋi.[3]
Adjective
[edit]pohe
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “pohe”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 345
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “puku.1a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
- ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2003), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic[2], volume 2: The Physical Environment, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 558, 581
Further reading
[edit]- Williams, Herbert William (1917), “pohe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 333
- John C. Moorfield (2011), “pohe”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
Tahitian
[edit]Verb
[edit]pohe
Tsou
[edit]Noun
[edit]pohe