tekau
Māori
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Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *te-kau (compare with Hawaiian kaʻau (“forty”), Tahitian taʻau (“twenty”) and Tongan tekau)[1][2] from Proto-Polynesian *kau₂ (“group”)[1] (see Hawaiian ʻau, Tahitian ʻau, Samoan ʻau (“group, bunch, shoal, school”) and Tongan kau (“bunch”)).[3]
Sense of
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teˈkau/ [tɛˈkɐʉ]
Numeral
tekau
Derived terms
- tekau mā tahi (11, previously 21)
- tekau mā rua (12, previously 22)
- tekau mā toru (13, previously 23)
- tekau mā whā (14, previously 24)
- tekau mā rima (15, previously 25)
- tekau mā ono (16, previously 26)
- tekau mā whitu (17, previously 27)
- tekau mā waru (18, previously 28)
- tekau mā iwa (19, previously 29)
- tahi tekau (20)
- rua tekau (40)
- toru tekau (60)
- whā tekau (80)
- rima tekau (100)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “te-kau”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “tekau”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 503–4
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kau.2b”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
- ^ Tamihana Te Rauparaha (2020), He Pukapuka Tataku i Nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui / A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha, Auckland University Press, →ISBN, pages 40–3
Further reading
- John C. Moorfield (2011), “tekau”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index[2], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN