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Revision as of 19:44, 3 February 2024

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Noun

purupuru

  1. star

References

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

  1. caulk

Verb

purupuru

  1. to stuff, to fill in
  2. to suppress

References

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  2. 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
  3. ^ 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.