kīnaki

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kiinaki (compare with Tahitian ʻīnaʻi “animal protein”, Samoan ʻinaʻi)[1] affixing *kina₃ (see Tongan kina).[2]

Noun

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kīnaki

  1. sauce, condiment, relish

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 148
  2. ^ “kiinaki”, “kina₃” (2011). Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill (eds.). POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online.

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kīnaki”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 138
  • “kīnaki” 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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