Etymograph

English

hoki

Hoki comes from Māori hoki ‘blue grenadier’.

  1. Māorimodernhoki‘blue grenadier’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1995same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Māorimodernhoki‘blue grenadier’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1995same form

Earliest quotation: 1995, William J. Broad, Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table: “Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as…”

Every English word from Māori hoki

Today it means

noun The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.

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Etymograph / Māori hoki / hoki

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