Ko te kupu kohe (i te reo Tonga: kofe, i te reo Hāmoa: ʻofe, i te reo Hawaii: ʻohe)[1] he ingoa o mua ō tētahi momo tipu whakatuputupu ki tētahi ngā motu pārūrū ki te Ao-o-Kiwa. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao o tēnei momo he Schizostachyum glaucifolium.[2][3]

Pā kohe

Ka whakamahia tēnei momo tipu mai ngā tangata o ngā motu pērā i te Tonga, te Porinīhia Wīwī me ngā motu Hawaii mō te ipu wai inu, mō ngā taputapu tao, me te hanga whare.[4][5][6][3] Kāore he tipu Schizostachyum glaucifolium i Aotearoa nei, nō reira ko te ingoa o tipu "kohekohe" tūātia ka maumahara ki ngā tātā mātotoru me pupuhi ō tērā tipu.[1]

Ngā tohutoro

takatā
  1. 1.0 1.1 Proto-Polynesian Etymologies: *Kohe, Kohe. Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden. Benton Family Trust. 2024.
  2. "Schizostachyum glaucifolium (Rupr.) Munro". Plants of the World Online. 2024.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "‘Ohe". Hawaiian Ethnobotany Online Database. Bishop Museum. 2024.
  4. Art Whistler (2011). The Rare Plants of Tonga. Tonga Trust Ltd. Ng. wh. 172–173.
  5. 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. 398-399. ISBN 9780858835894.
  6. Art Whistler (Hune 2011). "Plants of The Canoe People". Auckland Botanical Society Journal. 66 (1). Ng. wh. 1-6.