"taŋata" meaning in All languages combined

See taŋata on Wiktionary

Noun [Proto-Polynesian]

IPA: /taˈŋa.ta/, /ˈtaː.ŋa.ta/
Etymology: From Proto-Central Pacific *taŋʷata, from Proto-Oceanic *tamʷata, from earlier *taumataq. Etymology templates: {{inh|poz-pol-pro|poz-oce-pro|*tamʷata}} Proto-Oceanic *tamʷata Head templates: {{head|poz-pol-pro|noun}} *taŋata
  1. human being, person Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-taŋata-poz-pol-pro-noun-a6Rn201f Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Polynesian entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Rapa Nui]

IPA: /ta.ˈŋa.ta/ Forms: ŋāŋata [plural]
Etymology: From Proto-Polynesian *taŋata. Cognates include Hawaiian kanaka, Maori tangata, and Tongan tangata. Etymology templates: {{inh|rap|poz-pol-pro|*taŋata}} Proto-Polynesian *taŋata, {{cog|haw|kanaka}} Hawaiian kanaka, {{cog|mi|tangata}} Maori tangata, {{cog|to|tangata}} Tongan tangata Head templates: {{head|rap|noun|plural|ŋāŋata}} taŋata (plural ŋāŋata)
  1. human being
    Sense id: en-taŋata-rap-noun-K8DsBWjA Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 25 25
  2. man
    Sense id: en-taŋata-rap-noun-SLZ24rEH Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 25 25
  3. person
    Sense id: en-taŋata-rap-noun-OKgeh-eW Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 28 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: taŋata manu, taŋata roŋo, taŋata roŋoroŋo

Inflected forms

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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
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          "expansion": "Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:",
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      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Marquesic"
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          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hawaiian: kanaka\n→ Hawaiian Creole: kanak\n→ Chinook Jargon: kanaka (or via English)\n→ English: kanaka\n→ French: canaque\n→ English: Kanak\n→ German: Kanake"
    },
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      "depth": 4,
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        {
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "South Marquesan: 'enata"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Tahitic"
    },
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          },
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      "text": "Tahitian: taʻata"
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          "expansion": "Rapa Nui: tangata",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Rapa Nui: tangata"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Samoic-Outlier"
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      "templates": [],
      "text": "Ellicean"
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      "text": "Tuvaluan: tagata"
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      "text": "Futunic"
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      "text": "Samoic"
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          },
          "expansion": "Tokelauan: tagata",
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        }
      ],
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      "text": "Tongic"
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      "ipa": "/ˈtaː.ŋa.ta/"
    }
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    },
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang": "Rapa Nui",
  "lang_code": "rap",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 25 25",
          "kind": "other",
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      "id": "en-taŋata-rap-noun-SLZ24rEH",
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          "_dis": "21 28 52",
          "kind": "other",
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ta.ˈŋa.ta/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "taŋata"
}
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:",
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      "text": "Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:"
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          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "Proto-Eastern Polynesian:"
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    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Marquesic"
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      "depth": 4,
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            "1": "haw",
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          },
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          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hawaiian: kanaka\n→ Hawaiian Creole: kanak\n→ Chinook Jargon: kanaka (or via English)\n→ English: kanaka\n→ French: canaque\n→ English: Kanak\n→ German: Kanake"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
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          },
          "expansion": "South Marquesan: 'enata",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "South Marquesan: 'enata"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Tahitic"
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        {
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          },
          "expansion": "Maori: tangata",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Maori: tangata"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "rar",
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          },
          "expansion": "Rarotongan: tangata",
          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "Rarotongan: tangata"
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    {
      "depth": 4,
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          },
          "expansion": "Tahitian: taʻata",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Tahitian: taʻata"
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    {
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          "expansion": "Hawaiian: kaʻaka",
          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "Rapa Nui: tangata"
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      "text": "Samoic-Outlier"
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      "text": "Ellicean"
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      "ipa": "/taˈŋa.ta/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaː.ŋa.ta/"
    }
  ],
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}

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  ],
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      "word": "taŋata manu"
    },
    {
      "word": "taŋata roŋo"
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      "word": "taŋata roŋoroŋo"
    }
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        "2": "tangata"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Polynesian *taŋata. Cognates include Hawaiian kanaka, Maori tangata, and Tongan tangata.",
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    {
      "form": "ŋāŋata",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "rap",
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        "3": "plural",
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    }
  ],
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    "ta‧ŋa‧ta"
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  "lang_code": "rap",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "human being"
      ],
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        [
          "human",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "man"
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        [
          "man",
          "man"
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      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "person"
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        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ta.ˈŋa.ta/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "taŋata"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.