Borrowed fromMaoritakahē.
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑkəˌheɪ/,/ˈtɑkəˌhi/
takahē (pluraltakahēs)
- Aspecies of largeflightlessbird in theRallidae family,endemic toNew Zealand.
species of large flightless bird in the Rallidae family, endemic to New Zealand
Fromtakahi(“to trample”); fromProto-Polynesian*taka-fi(“to tread on, to trample”) (compare withHawaiiankeʻehi(“to stamp, to trample, to brace with one's feet”),Tahitiantaʻahi,Tongantakahi(“to scratch”)).[1][2]
takahē
- takahē,species of largeflightlessbird in theRallidae family,endemic toNew Zealand.
- ^Tregear, Edward (1891)Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page450
- ^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “taka.2a”, inPOLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- “takahē” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
