English
amokura
Amokura comes from Māori amokura ‘red-tailed tropicbird’.
- Māorimodernamokura‘red-tailed tropicbird’
- Englishearliest quotation 1981same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Māorimodernamokura‘red-tailed tropicbird’
- Englishearliest quotation 1981same form
Earliest quotation: 1981, Richard Anthony Benton: “The amokura (Phaethon rubicauda), the red-tailed tropic bird, known…”
Every English word from Māori amokura
Today it means
noun Synonym of red-tailed tropicbird.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Māori amokura / amokura