English
puha
Puha comes from Māori pūhā.
- Māorimodernpūhā
- Englishearliest quotation 1983puha
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Māorimodernpūhā
- Englishearliest quotation 1983puha
Earliest quotation: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People: “‘Come on,’ she says to the entranced child, ‘downstairs…”
Every English word from Māori pūhā
Today it means
noun Any of various Eurasian sowthistles of the genus Sonchus, used as a vegetable by Māori people; especially the prickly sowthistle, Sonchus asper.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Māori pūhā / puha