whenu

whenu

Gun

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognates include Fon hwenu, Saxwe Gbe hwènù, Aja (West Africa) hwenu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣʷē.nũ̄/

Noun

whenu (plural whenu lẹ́) (Nigeria)

  1. time

Derived terms

  • whenuhó (“history/story”)
  • whenuhó-kántọ́ (“historian”)

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fenu (“to twist; rope, cord”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɸenu/ [ˈfɛnʉ]

Verb

whenu

  1. to spin, to twist

Noun

whenu

  1. strand (each of the strings that make up a rope, etc.)
  2. (weaving) warp
  3. (mathematics) cosine

Further reading

  • John C. Moorfield (2011), “whenu”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎[1], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
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