tekau

tekau

Māori

Māori cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tekau

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

  1. (archaic) twenty, score (20).[4]
    Synonyms: rua ngahuru, rua tekau
  2. ten
    Synonym: ngahuru

Derived terms

References

  1. 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
  2. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “tekau”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 503–4
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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