taimaha

== Māori == === Etymology === From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *taimafa (“heavy”) cognate with Rarotongan taimaha and Tahitian taimaha. By surface analysis, tai- +‎ maha (“great, abundant”). === Adjective === taimaha heavy Synonym: taumaha (of prices) expensive, costly, pricey (of conditions) harsh, severe, burdening (figurative) unwell ==== References ==== Williams, Herbert William (1917), “taimaha”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 424 John C. Moorfield (2011), “taimaha”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN == Tahitian == === Etymology === From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *taimafa (“heavy”). Cognate with Māori taimaha. === Adjective === taimaha heavy (figurative) heavy ==== References ==== Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[2] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN “taimaha” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “TAI-MAFA”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9