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kupenga

Māori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *kupeŋa, from Proto-Oceanic *kupeŋa. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻupena, Tahitian ʻupeʻa and Samoan ʻupega.[1][2][3]

Noun

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kupenga

  1. net

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), “kupenga”, in Maori–Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 184
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kupega”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  3. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (1998), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[2], volume 1: Material Culture, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 213

Further reading

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

Swahili

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Verb

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kupenga (verbal noun of the ku class)

  1. infinitive of -penga
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