Ko te kupu Citrus[1] he ingoa pūtaiao mō tētahi puninga tipu. Nō tēnei puninga tini mano momo tipu. He hua muramura nō ēnei tipu. E waiwai me hīmoemoe ana ōna kiko hua, e kakara ana ōna kiri.

Ngā hua nō tipu momo puninga Citrus

Kei te pūhia ēnei tipu Citrus mai ngā whenua pārūrū o te paparahi Āhia.[2] Ka mauria ēnei tipu i haere e ngā tīpuna Ao-o-Kiwa, ka horapa ērā tipu i te ngā motu.[3] E mōhio ana, e tūātia ana ngā tangata Ao-o-Kiwa ki ēnei tipu me te ingoa moli (te whakamāori ā-tuhi: mori), i takea te ingoa moli mai te kupu reo Ao-o-Kiwa i mua *molis.[4]

Ngā momo

takatā
Whakaahua Ingoa pūtaiao[5] Ingoa ā-rohe[5][6] Reo Aronga o te ingoa
  Citrus macroptera moli kau Whītī kau: "rākau"
moli uku Tonga uku: "horoi o te makawe/uru"[6][7]
moli u‘u Hāmoa
  Citrus hystrix moli karo,
moli karokaro
Whītī "mori huahua"
moli vao Hāmoa "mori wao"
  Citrus limon moli karokaro Whītī
moli sosoriatia
moli ni vavalagi "mori Pākehā"
rēmana Māori (takea mai te kupu Pākehā lemon)
 
 
Citrus maxima moli kana Whītī "mori kai"
moli tonga Tonga "mori Tonga"[7]
moli toga Hāmoa
moli meleke
moli suka
  Citrus sinensis moli ni taiti,
molitaiti
Whītī "mori Tahiti"
moli kai Tonga "mori kai"
moli inu "mori inu"
moli ‘aina Hāmoa "mori kainga"
ārani Māori (takea mai te kupu Pākehā orange)
‘alani,
‘ālani
Hawaii (takea mai te kupu Pākehā orange)

Ngā tohutoro

takatā
  1. "Citrus L." Plants of the World Online. 2024.
  2. "Charred pummelo peel, historical linguistics and other tree crops: Approaches to framing the historical context of early Citrus cultivation in East, South and Southeast Asia" nō te pukapuka rokiroki e Véronique Zech-Matterne & Fiorentino Girolamo (2017). Archaeology and history of citrus fruit in the Mediterranean. Ng. wh. 31-33. ISBN 9782918887775.
  3. Roger M. Blench (2005). "Fruits and arboriculture in the Indo Pacific region". Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. 24: 31–50.
  4. Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley & Meredith Osmond (2008). The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Pukapuka tua-3: Plants. Ng. wh. 338-339. ISBN 9780858835894.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Citrus (citrus) and Fortunella (kumquat)". Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry. Aperira 2006.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Paul Alan Cox & Sandra Anne Banack (1991). Islands, Plants, and Polynesians: An Introduction to Polynesian Ethnobotany. Wh. 56. Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus. Institute for Polynesian Studies. ISBN 0931146186.
  7. 7.0 7.1 W. Arthur Whistler (2000). Plants in Samoan Culture: The Ethnobotany of Samoa. ISBN 0964542668. Wh. 185.