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āniwaniwa

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Maori

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nuanua – compare with Tahitian ānuanua, Samoan nuanua.[1][2]

Noun

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āniwaniwa

  1. rainbow

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 12
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 148
  • Biggs, Bruce (1990) English-Maori, Maori-English Dictionary, Auckland University Press, →ISBN, page 96
  • Williams, William (1852) A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language, and a Concise Grammar; to Which is Added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences, second edition, London: Williams and Norgate, page 5: “Aníwaníwa, s. Rainbow.”

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “āniwaniwa”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 12
  • “āniwaniwa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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