kōpī

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kava-pusi (compare with Samoan 'avapuhi plus Hawaiian ʻawapuhi and ʻōpuhi, “shampoo ginger, Zingiber zerumbet”)[1][2] from Proto-Polynesian *kawa (thus doublet of kawa and kawakawa).

Noun

kōpī

  1. Corynocarpus laevigatus
  2. ginger, Zingiber officinale

References
  1. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kawa-pusi”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online‎
  2. “Kōpī”, in Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden‎, Benton Family Trust, 2022
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.