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Description |
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New Zealand Maori
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A(a)
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Proper article before personal and locative class bases standing as subject and before personal class bases following prepositions ki,i,kei,hei
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Marquesas
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I/a/
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Case marker before personal names and personal pronouns
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New Zealand Maori
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-Aa-
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In the manner of
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New Zealand Maori
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Awhi-tia
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Embrace
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East Uvea
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Ago
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Keep a liquid from dispersing by damming it up in some way (e.g. soup in a banana leaf)
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New Zealand Maori
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Ai
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Consequential and anaphoric postposed verbal particle
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New Zealand Maori
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Arawhata
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Bridge, stepped log used as a ladder
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New Zealand Maori
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Aarai-te-tonga
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A peak on Ruapehu
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New Zealand Maori
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Arawa
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Shark sp. . Also a name of one of the founding canoes
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Samoan
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Aalia
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Watercourse, dry bed of a river ; brook, creek but example suggests perhaps one subject to drying up
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New Zealand Maori
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Aro/aro/faki
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A motion of hands in dance
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New Zealand Maori
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I te /aroaro/ o
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In the presence of, before
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New Zealand Maori
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Ana
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If and when (i.e. if, with reference to a point of time)
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New Zealand Maori
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H/ane/
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Rotten, as wood
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New Zealand Maori
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Aanewa(newa)
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Reel, fall; weak, listless; giddy; loaf, linger
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New Zealand Maori
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Anoo
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Postposed particle, again
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New Zealand Maori
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Aruhe
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The edible rhizome of Bracken (Pteridium esculentum)
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New Zealand Maori
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Rarauhe
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Bracken (Pteridium esculentum) (Tuuhoe)
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New Zealand Maori
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Ao
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The world (as opposed to the underworld)
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New Zealand Maori
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Ao
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Cloud
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New Zealand Maori
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Apa
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Serf, minion, worker
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New Zealand Maori
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Aha/aha
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Saw-like instrument of shark teeth set in a wooden mounting
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Marquesas
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Puu/ahi. Pu/ahi (Lch). Bu/áhhi (Crk).
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Sandalwood tree. Bois de santal (Lch).
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New Zealand Maori
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Aata-
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Carefully, deliberately
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New Zealand Maori
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Atarau
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Moon, moonlight; a beam of light
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New Zealand Maori
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Taariki
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A man's name (father of Taonui)
Uncertain Semantic Connection
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New Zealand Maori
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Te /Ati/-
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First part of some tribal names
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New Zealand Maori
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Atu
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Postposed particle indicating direction away from speaker; a comparative marker
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New Zealand Maori
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Auee
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Alas; howl
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New Zealand Maori
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A(a)uru
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Pluck up (of weeds), destroy (as floodwaters destroying vegetation on banks), as scrofula destroying flesh
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New Zealand Maori
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Aauta
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Toss, as in restless sleep
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New Zealand Maori
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Aute
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Bark cloth
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New Zealand Maori
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E(e)
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Preposed verbal particle, non-past tense
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New Zealand Maori
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E...ana
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Imperfect tense, habitual tense
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New Zealand Maori
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Ea
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Appear above surface of water, horizon (of heavenly bodies); reappear
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New Zealand Maori
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Eenei
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The ones near me, these (head noun or qualifier)
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New Zealand Maori
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Whaa-
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A non-productive causative prefix
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New Zealand Maori
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Waahine
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Women
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Motu
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Haahine
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Women
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New Zealand Maori
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Whanga
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Bay, harbour, estuary . Common prefix to placenames
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New Zealand Maori
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Akaroa
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A harbour in the South Island
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New Zealand Maori
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Whai-
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Have, possess
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New Zealand Maori
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Whakaahu
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Place, put (especially of something on fire)
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New Zealand Maori
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Whakakai
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Cylindrical greenstone ear-pendant. Said to have been used as a teething-ring for babies
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New Zealand Maori
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Whakapapa-tia
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Genealogy, recite genealogy
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New Zealand Maori
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Whakatau-pootiki
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Apakura's young son who avenges death of his nephew Tuu-whakararo
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New Zealand Maori
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Hari
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To carry, bring or take
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New Zealand Maori
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Heri
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To carry, bring or take
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New Zealand Maori
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Whana
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Bent, bowed . Kick
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New Zealand Maori
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Whaanako
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Steal, theft, thief, thievish, thieving (EMA)
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