Hui (meeting), A Cognate from Taiwan to Oceania
Image: The meeting house of Tsou tribe, 1910 by Torii Ryūzō
Torii Ryūzō,鳥居龍藏（とりいりゅうぞう，1870 － 1953
an anthropologist, ethnologist and archaeologist.
Hui (meeting), A Cognate
from Taiwan to Oceania
The cognate “Hui” is used among Taiwanese,Hawaiian and New Zealand Maori. Its meaning is meeting or gathering. The meeting houses are common buildings in both Taiwan and Maori. Since the Maori people had departed Taiwan 7,000 years ago, so we can deduce the word “Hui” belongs to the proto-Austronesian language and it has been used for no less than 7,000 years.
Hui (Maori assembly) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;
A hui is a New Zealand term for a social gathering or assembly. Originally a Māori language word, it was used by Europeans as early as 1846 when referring to Māori gatherings[1] - but is now increasingly used in New Zealand English to describe events that are not exclusively Māori.
Hawaiian Dictionary(Hwn to Eng)
hui 1. nvi. Club, association, society, corporation, company, institution, organization, band, league, firm, joint ownership, partnership, union, alliance, troupe, team; to form a society or organization; to meet, intermingle, associate, congregate. (Probably hū 7 + -i, transitivizer; cf. Gram. 6.6.4.) A hui hou aku, goodby; till [we] meet again. hoʻo.hui To form a society. Palapala hoʻohui, charter, as of an association. (PPN fuhi.)
A Meeting House of Yap
Stone courtyard and exterior of Rull Men's
Meeting House
Photograph from National Register collection,
by Yvonne Brewer
Image credit: National Park Service
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