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purupuru

purupuru

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'Are'are

Noun

purupuru

star

References

Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication (thus doublet) of puru from Proto-Oceanic *pulu (“coconut husk”) (compare with Fijian bulu and Hawaiian pulu "coconut husk")^[1]^[2] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulut.^[3] Sense of "plug" is a semantic extension from the lack of coconuts found naturally in New Zealand.^[2]

Noun

purupuru

caulk

Verb

purupuru

to stuff, to fill in
to suppress

Related terms

puru

References

^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 379
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Bruce Biggs (1994) “New Words for a New World”, in A. K. Pawley, M. D. Ross, editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change (Pacific Linguistics Series C; 127), Australian National University, →DOI, page 29
^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pulu.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

“purupuru” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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