Reduplication of tiri “to scatter, to cast”.
tiritiri
- to toss about
- to split, to share
- to scatter, to shimmer (of light)
- to disturb
tiritiri
- scattering, apportion
- shimmering, flickering, mirage
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tiritiri”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 496
- “tiritiri” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
