kāhui

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *kaa-pui (compare with Hawaiian ʻāhui (bunch (of fruit like bananas)))[1] from Proto-Polynesian from Proto-Oceanic *pui₁ (bunch of fruit) (compare with Hawaiian hui (troupe, association, society, club) and Tahitian hui (group) plus Hawaiian huihui (cluster, collection, bunch) and Tahitian huihui (collection)).[2] Doublet of hui and huihui.

Noun

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kāhui

  1. group, cluster
  2. flock, herd, swarm

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 113
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kaa-fui”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

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  • kāhui” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.