pae

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

pae

1. rice (general term)

Unlike most other East and Southeast Asian languages, Balantak does not distinguish between paddy, husked raw rice grains, and cooked rice.

• Robert Busenitz & Daniel Bradbury (2016). Balantak Dictionary – pae. SIL International.

From Latin palea. Compare Venetan paja, Italian paglia, Istriot paja, Romanian paie, French paille, Catalan palla, Spanish paja.

pae f

1. straw

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

pae

1. unhusked rice
2. year

pae m (plural paes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pai.

Borrowed from Tahitian pae.

pae

1. five

• Pae is used in compound numerals only:

  Pae 'ahuru. ― Fifty (literally, “Five tens.”)

  Pae 'ahuru mā pae. ― Fifty-five (literally, “Five tens and five.”)

• For the simple number "five", the native term rima is used.

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 170
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 147

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pae

1. five

• pae ʻahuru

• → Rapa Nui: pae