tahā

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *tapaya (“coconut or gourd container or bottle”).[1][2][3]

Noun

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tahā

  1. calabash, container using dried shell of bottle gourd fruit
    Synonym: hue

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 440
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tafaa”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 75

Further reading

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  • “tahā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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