Rapa Nui[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *pa-tia. Cognates include Tahitian pātia and Maori pātia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˌpaː.ˈti.a/
- Hyphenation: pā‧ti‧a
pātia
- spear
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 180
- Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 200