Where does “kuri” come from?

kuri (English) comes from Maori kurī, from Proto-Polynesian kuli, from Proto-Oceanic *kuli.

kuri (English): The kitchen of a Zen monastery

Definitions

  1. The kitchen of a Zen monastery

Ancestry of “kuri”, step by step

kuri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Maori kurī

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Maorikurīdog
2Proto-Polynesiankulidog
3Proto-Oceanic*kuli—

via Japanese 庫裏

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese庫裏living quarters of a Buddhist temple
Every word from Proto-Oceanic *kuli →Every word from Proto-Polynesian kuli →Every word from Maori kurī →
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