Possibly from Hiri Motu - where it is a familiar form of tubu, as in tubuna or tubugu.

Hiri Motu has two dialects, called Austronesian and Papuan.

Its official languages are Tok Pisin, English and Hiri Motu.

A simplified form of the Motu language (nowadays called Hiri Motu) was used for communication between the traders.

Language(s): There are over 820 different languages with English, Pidgin and Hiri Motu the most widely spoken.

One was Melanesian Pidgin, which, besides English and Hiri Motu, is one of the official languages of the country.

The literacy rate in Suki is 5-15%, English is the language of instruction in schools and Hiri Motu is also spoken.

The Papuan dialect was replaced by Hiri Motu in many parts of its former territory, and now also by Tok Pisin.

The only area where Tok Pisin is not prevalent is the southern region of Papua, where people often use the third official language, Hiri Motu.

Along with English and Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin is one of the three official languages of Papua New Guinea.

Hiri Motu, (also known as Police Motu or Pidgin Motu) is an official language of Papua New Guinea.

It was renamed Hiri Motu in the 1970s, due to the connotations of the word "police" and became one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea.

Most notable among these are Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay.

Reflecting this situation, younger speakers of the "parent language" (Motu proper) tend to be unfamiliar with Hiri Motu, and few of them understand or speak it well, which was certainly not the case a generation or two ago.

Of the three official languages, English spoken by 1%-2% of the population, Tok Pisin is widespread, and Hiri Motu is spoken in the Papua region, the main region in which Tok Pisin is not prevalent.

A simplified form of Motu developed as a trade language in the Papuan region, in the South-East of the main island of New Guinea, originally known as Police Motu, and today known as Hiri Motu.

Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is one of many Central Papuan Tip languages, and is spoken by the Motuans, native inhabitants of Papua New Guinea.

Whereas Tok Pisin is the main lingua franca in all Papua New Guinean towns, in part of the southern mainland coastal area centred on Central Province, Hiri Motu is a stronger lingua franca (but not in Port Moresby).

After Tok Pisin and English, Hiri Motu was at the time of independence the third most commonly spoken of the more than 800 languages of Papua New Guinea, although its use has been declining for some years, mainly in favour of Tok Pisin.

Tok Pisin was not widely used in Papua New Guinea south of the Owen Stanley Ranges until after World War II, and by the early 1960s Hiri Motu had probably reached its widest use, being the normal lingua franca of a large part of the country.

However, since the early 1970s, if not earlier, the use of Hiri Motu as a day-to-day lingua franca in its old "range" has been gradually declining in favour of English and Tok Pisin; speakers nowadays tend to be elderly, and concentrated in Central Province and Gulf Province.

Phonological and grammatical differences mean not only that Hiri Motu speakers cannot understand Motu, but also that Motu speakers not exposed to Hiri Motu have similar difficulties, though the languages are lexically very similar, and retain a common Austronesian syntactical basis.

Hiri Motu, (also known as Police Motu or Pidgin Motu) is an official language of Papua New Guinea.

Nurarihyon no Mago (Hihi)

Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Hihi)

Te Hihi managed to stop Hongi Hika from destroying his relatives by presenting the warrior with a fine old mere (greenstone weapon).

Though defeated by Geki BatFire, an enraged Hihi assumes a stronger Dorinki-powered form as a result, wounding the Gekirangers.

Because Maku infused him with his Dorinki, Hihi can maintain his Beast-Man form as if he is a living Beast-Man.

The Stitchbird or Hihi (Notiomystis cincta) is a rare honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand.

Two public primary schools are located in karaka, Karaka School and Te Hihi School, as well as one private coeducational secondary school, Strathallan.

Butler Point Whaling Museum is located at Hihi, near Mangonui in New Zealand's Doubtless Bay, a centre for whaling fleets in the 1820s-1850s.

Though saddened to see Rio reduced to serving Maku, she is assured by Long that Rio would be back on top, having her follow Hihi to understand the meaning behind it.

When one of his men is converted into an Apeman by Hihi Zuno, Arashi tracks down the Zuno Beast and uses him to commit crimes before Yusuke battles Arashi in a fist fight prior to Oblar's interference.

They had a famous chief, named Hihi, a real Vercingetorix, so that you need not be astonished that the war with the English has become chronic in the Northern Island, for in it is the famous tribe of the Waikatos, who defend their lands under the leadership of William Thompson."

This leads to Hihi crippling Geki Tohja by focusing his rage on the right leg, injuring Ran to the point of losing concentration as Geki Wolf arrives to the team's aid, forming Geki Tohja Wolf to destroy Hihi.

They have no close relatives except the stitchbird, and their more distant relationships are likewise still unknown.

The Stitchbird also supplements its diet with small insects.

The Stitchbird nests in holes high up in old trees.

The only close relative to the family is the stitchbird; their taxonomic relationships to other birds remain to be determined.

The Stitchbird is a small honeyeater-like bird.

In 2007 a new passerine family was erected to contain the Stitchbird, the Notiomystidae.

"The ecology of cavity nesting in the stitchbird (Notiomystis cincta)".

New Zealand Wattlebirds have no close relatives apart from the Stitchbird, and their taxonomic relationships to other birds remain to be determined.

Family N.N.: Stitchbird.

The Stitchbird was originally described as a member of the primarily Australian and New Guinean honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

The genus Notiomystis (New Zealand Stitchbird), has recently been removed to the new Notiomystidae of which it is the only member.

Endangered native species introduced or reintroduced as part of the ongoing island restoration project include the little spotted kiwi, takahē, tieke, kokako, stitchbird and brown teal.

It also a bird sanctuary, with rare birds, including saddleback, takahē, parakeet, North Island robin, kōkako, whitehead, little spotted kiwi, stitchbird and brown teal.

Their main food is nectar, but the Stitchbird's diet covers over twenty species of native flowers and thirty species of fruit and many species of introduced plants.

The Stitchbird or Hihi (Notiomystis cincta) is a rare honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand.

During copulation, the female moves her tail to the side and the male either mounts the female from behind or in front (as in the stitchbird), or moves very close to her.

The Stitchbird was relatively common early in the European colonisation of New Zealand, and began to decline relatively quickly afterwards, being extinct on the mainland and many offshore islands by 1885.

His ornithological collecting has been subsequently criticised for such reckless actions as shooting 150 specimens of the rare Stitchbird on Little Barrier Island at a time when it had become extinct everywhere else.

The Stitchbird rarely lands on the ground and seldom visits flowers on the large canopy trees favoured by the tui and bellbird (this may simply be because of the competition from the more aggressive, larger birds).

John G.; Flux, Ian & Ericson, Per G. P. (2006): Systematic affinities of two enigmatic New Zealand passerines of high conservation priority, the hihi or stitchbird 'Notiomystis cincta' and the kokako 'Callaeas cinerea'.

Several taxa turned out to represent highly distinct species-poor lineages and consequently new families had to be established, some of them - like the Stitchbird of New Zealand and the Eurasian Bearded Reedling - monotypic with only one living species.

In 2005, 60 Stitchbirds were released in the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary near Wellington and in October that year, three Stitchbird chicks hatched there, the first time for more than 120 years that a Stitchbird chick had been born on mainland New Zealand.

Nurarihyon no Mago (Hihi)

Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Hihi)

Te Hihi managed to stop Hongi Hika from destroying his relatives by presenting the warrior with a fine old mere (greenstone weapon).

Though defeated by Geki BatFire, an enraged Hihi assumes a stronger Dorinki-powered form as a result, wounding the Gekirangers.

Because Maku infused him with his Dorinki, Hihi can maintain his Beast-Man form as if he is a living Beast-Man.

The Stitchbird or Hihi (Notiomystis cincta) is a rare honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand.

Two public primary schools are located in karaka, Karaka School and Te Hihi School, as well as one private coeducational secondary school, Strathallan.

Butler Point Whaling Museum is located at Hihi, near Mangonui in New Zealand's Doubtless Bay, a centre for whaling fleets in the 1820s-1850s.

Though saddened to see Rio reduced to serving Maku, she is assured by Long that Rio would be back on top, having her follow Hihi to understand the meaning behind it.

When one of his men is converted into an Apeman by Hihi Zuno, Arashi tracks down the Zuno Beast and uses him to commit crimes before Yusuke battles Arashi in a fist fight prior to Oblar's interference.

They had a famous chief, named Hihi, a real Vercingetorix, so that you need not be astonished that the war with the English has become chronic in the Northern Island, for in it is the famous tribe of the Waikatos, who defend their lands under the leadership of William Thompson."

This leads to Hihi crippling Geki Tohja by focusing his rage on the right leg, injuring Ran to the point of losing concentration as Geki Wolf arrives to the team's aid, forming Geki Tohja Wolf to destroy Hihi.

"The ecology of cavity nesting in the stitchbird (Notiomystis cincta)".

The Stitchbird or Hihi (Notiomystis cincta) is a rare honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand.

Ewen, J.G., Flux, I., and Ericson, P.G.P. (2006) Systematic affinities of two enigmatic New Zealand passerines of high conservation priority, the hihi or stitchbird Notiomystis cincta and the kokako Callaeas cinerea.