Etymograph

English

kahawai

Kahawai comes from Māori kahawai.

  1. Māorimodernkahawai
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2003same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Māorimodernkahawai
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2003same form

Earliest quotation: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand: “Māori oratory of those years began to employ proverbs…”

Every English word from Māori kahawai

Today it means

noun An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.

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Etymograph / Māori kahawai / kahawai

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