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Derived from Proto-Polynesian *felo (“yellow, tawny” – compare with Hawaiian helo, Tongan felo and felofelo)[1][2][3] Sense of "yellow" displaced by kōwhai while evolving close to "red".[4]
Sense of “bright” is semantic evolution from “yellow”[4] > “bright”. This also evolved into sense of gold from its shine; recorded as ferro by Vincent Pyke interviewing one Mr. Palmer informed by one "Tuawaiki" (or "Tuwaewae") in Otago.[5] Similar parallels in the same Austronesian family can be seen in Tagalog between bulaw “reddish orange” and bulawan “gold”,[6] and Malagasy volamena (from vola mena, lit. “red silver”).
whero
- red (orangish or brownish)
Synonym: kura - (obsolete) yellow
Synonyms: kōwhai, renga - (obsolete) gold (element and metal)
whero
whero
- to redden
Colors in Māori · ngā tae (layout · text)
| tea, mā | kiwikiwi | pango, mangu |
|---|---|---|
| mea, kura, whero | karaka; parauri | kōwhai, renga |
| kāriki, kākāriki | kārikiuri | |
| kikorangi | kahurangi | |
| tūāuri | waiporoporo | māwhero |
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “whero”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 622
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “felo.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
- ^ Branstetter, Katherine B. (January 1977), “A Reconstruction of Proto-Polynesian Color Terminology”, in Anthropological Linguistics[2], volume 19, number 1, page 21
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dodgson, Neil; Chen, Victoria; Zahido, Meimuna (November 2024), “The colonisation of the colour pink: variation and change in Māori’s colour lexicon”, in Linguistics, →DOI, pages 9, 16–7, 23–4
- ^ Pyke, Vincent (1887), History of the Early Gold Discoveries in Otago[3], Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company, Limited, pages 2, 121 – page 121 with input by Thomas Pratt.
- ^ Blench, Roger; Spriggs, Matthew (1999), Archaeology and Language III, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 128–9