kurī

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kuri"

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kuli (compare with Samoan ulī, Tongan kulī, Tahitian ʻurī and ʻūrī, Tuamotuan kurio and kuri, Hawaiian ʻīlio)[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *kuli (compare with Fijian koli[2]).

Noun

kurī

  1. dog

References
  1. Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 186
  2. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kulii”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online‎

Further reading
  • “kurī” 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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