whenu

Gun

Alternative forms

• hwenu (Benin)

Etymology

Cognates include Fon hwenu, Saxwe Gbe hwènù, Aja (West Africa) hwenu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣʷē.nũ̄/

Noun

whenu (plural whenu lẹ́) (Nigeria)

1. time

Derived terms

• whenuhó (“history/story”)
• whenuhó-kántọ́ (“historian”)

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fenu (“to twist; rope, cord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸenu/ [ˈfɛnʉ]

Verb

whenu

1. to spin, to twist

Noun

whenu

1. strand (each of the strings that make up a rope, etc.)
2. (weaving) warp
3. (mathematics) cosine

Further reading

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “whenu”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN