whiwhi
Maori
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fifi (“entangled, confused” – compare with Tahitian fifi “chain”) related to Proto-Oceanic *pisi (“bind up, tie up, wind round, wrap” – compare with Tongan fihi “tangled, intricate, complicated”, Samoan fisi “to entwine” and Fijian vici “to bind, to coil”)[1][2]
Verb
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Adjective
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Noun
[edit]whiwhi
- fat covering entrails
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ See “fifi.2a”, “fisi” in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011).
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 292-3
Etymology 2
[edit]Likely from whai “to possess, to pursue, to lay hold of” via conflation with reduplicated from whaiwhai.
Verb
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