wheke

wheke

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *feke. Cognate with Hawaiian heʻe, Rapa Nui hehe, Samoan fe'e, Tongan feke.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɸeke/ [ˈfɛkɛ]

Noun

wheke

  1. octopus, squid

See also

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “feke”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  2. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “wheke”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 620

Further reading

  • John C. Moorfield (2011), “wheke”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎[2], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
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