tahe

See also: ṱahe

Acehnese

Adjective

tahe

1. absent-minded

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Estonian

Etymology

From tahtma +‎ -e.

Noun

tahe (genitive tahte, partitive tahet)

1. will, willingness, desire

Declension

Declension of tahe (ÕS type 6/mõte, ht-h gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tahe	tahted
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tahte
genitive			tahete
partitive		tahet	tahteid
illative		tahtesse	tahetesse tahteisse
inessive		tahtes	tahetes tahteis
elative		tahtest	tahetest tahteist
allative		tahtele	tahetele tahteile
adessive		tahtel	tahetel tahteil
ablative		tahtelt	tahetelt tahteilt
translative		tahteks	taheteks tahteiks
terminative		tahteni	taheteni
essive		tahtena	tahetena
abessive		tahteta	taheteta
comitative		tahtega	tahetega

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *tape (compare with Rarotongan ta‘e, Tahitian tafe, Samoan tafe, Hawaiian kahe).

Relation of dropping and termination of pregnancy can be seen in parallel within the Austronesian family e.g. Malay gugur “to drop, to fall; to lose” with keguguran “loss, miscarriage” and pengguguran; see also Hawaiian kahe for relation with menses.

Verb

tahe

1. to flow, to exude
2. to drip
3. to menstruate
4. to drop
5. (intransitive) to miscarry

Noun

tahe

1. any exudate
   1. sap

      Synonyms: ware, tae

2. menses, menstruation i.e. natural monthly uterine discharge among women
3. miscarriage, abortion

Derived terms

• tahepuia
• tatahe
• whakatahe

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “tahe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 418
• “tahe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *tape (compare with Maori tahe, Rarotongan ta‘e, Samoan tafe).

Verb

tahe

1. flow

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taqe, variant of *taqi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *Caqi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɣe/

Noun

tahe

1. excrement

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)