pūngāwerewere
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate of Tahitian pūʻāverevere “cobweb” and Samoan ʻapogāleveleve from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *puŋa-a-leveleve metathesizing Proto-Polynesian *puŋa-a-welewele[1] related to *ka-lewelewe (compare with Tongan kaleveleve) affixing *lewelewe possibly a cognate of *lawalawa ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq (compare with Malay labah-labah and Cebuano lawa)[2] – reinterpreted as compound of werewere reduplicate of were “to suspend, to hang”, and punga either from the belief of it as coming from the deity Punga or from pū “clump” referring to its many young.[3] or from punga meaning “lump”.
Noun
[edit]pūngāwerewere
References
[edit]- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “puga-a-werewere”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D. (2011) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 4, Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 409; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)
- ^ Mere Roberts (2013 June) “Ways of Seeing: Whakapapa”, in SITES[1], volume 10, number 1, , pages 102-3
Further reading
[edit]- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pūngāwerewere”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 361
- “pūngāwerewere” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Categories:
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Maori lemmas
- Maori nouns
- mi:Spiders