Renga
Appearance
Ko te renga (i te reo Tonga: enga, i te reo Tahiti: reʻa, i te reo Hawaii: lena o ʻōlena),[1][2] o te tumariki (takea mai te kupu Pākehā turmeric), he tipu me ingoa pūtaiao Curcuma longa.[3][2] Kei te take tēnei tipu mai te whenua Īnia i te paparahi Āhia.
Ka whakamahia te nehu huria mai tēnei tipu i te ngā Āhia-ki-te-Rāwhiti-mā-Tonga mō te āpiti ki te namunamuā tāwara me tea o ana kai.[4] Ka whakamahi ngā tangata Ao-o-Kiwa te renga hei tea o ngā kākahu rite ngā raupua o te kōwhai (i te reo Hawaii: lenalena, i te reo Tonga: engaenga).[5] Kāore he tipu renga i Aotearoa nei, nō reira ko te ingoa o tipu "rengarenga (Arthropodium cirrhatum)" tūātia mō te maumahara ki te akakōare mātotoru ō tērā tipu.[6]
Ngā tohutoro
[takatā | takatā pūtake]- ↑ 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. 412-413. ISBN 9780858835894.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Curcuma longa - Turmeric". Cook Islands Biodiversity Database.
- ↑ "Curcuma longa L.". Plants of the World Online. 2024.
- ↑ Rosemary Brissenden (2003). South East Asian Food. Wh. 58. ISBN 1742734715. Hardie Grant Books.
- ↑ Frances Lennard & Andy Mills (2020). Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities. Sidestone Press. Ng. wh. 89-90. ISBN 9789088909719.
- ↑ Proto-Polynesian Etymologies: *Renga. Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden. Benton Family Trust. 2024.