tūtaki

== Māori == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *tuqu-taki (“to join together” – compare with Hawaiian kūkaʻi “rope fastening fish nets together”, Tongan tuʻutaki “to join or tie together”, Samoan tutaʻi “to join or knot together [of ropes]”), reanalyzable as tū + taki. Sense “to shut an enclosure, to block, to lock” is influenced by a homograph of taki “to stick or plant in the ground, to stake” and its reduplicate form takitaki “fence, palisade”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtuːtaki/ [ˈtuːtɐki] === Verb === tūtaki to join together to meet to shut (of a enclosure), to block, to bolt Synonyms: whakarawa, rawe === Noun === tūtaki bolt or bar between two sides of a double door, latch Synonyms: whakarawa, koropā === References === === Further reading === Williams, Herbert William (1917), “tūtaki”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 541-2 “tūtaki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.