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tuitui

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English

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Noun

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tuitui

  1. candlenut
    • 1885, W. Wyatt Gill, Jottings from the Pacific:
      Of yore the baked kernel of the tuitui, with grated cocoa-nut, was the approved bait in rat-hunting.

Fijian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *tuRi-tuRi; cognate with Tongan tuitui and Hawaiian kukui.

Noun

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tuitui

  1. candlenut tree and fruit, Aleurites moluccana.

References

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  • Gatty, Ronald (2009), “tuitui”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎[4], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 277

Māori

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Etymology

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Reduplication of tui, from Proto-Polynesian *tui (“to thread on string”),[1][2] from Proto-Central Pacific *tui, from Proto-Oceanic *tuʀi.[3] The Proto-Polynesian form may also have been influenced by Proto-Oceanic *tuʀi-tuʀi (“candlenut”), in which the canoe plant died out in New Zealand's cold climate; compare the relationship of Tahitian tui and tutuʻi, as well as Hawaiian kui and kukui.[4]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtuitui/ [ˈtʉitʉi]

Verb

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tuitui

  1. to sew
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References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “tuitui”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 546–7
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “TUI”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  3. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (1998), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[2], volume 1: Material Culture, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 263–4
  4. ^ Whistler, Art (June 2011), “Plants of the Canoe People”, in Lucy Cranwell Lecture for 2011‎[3], pages 6–7

Further reading

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

Tongan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *tuRi-tuRi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tuitui

  1. candlenut tree and fruit, Aleurites moluccana.
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