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Finnish
Verb
kapua
- inflection of kavuta:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Anagrams
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kapuqa (“rain cloud”) from Proto-Polynesian *kapu (“mist”) (compare with Tongan kakapu (“fog, mist”))[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *kaput (“mist”) (see Fijian kabu) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kabut (“mist”) (see Malay kabut (“fog”))[3]
Noun
kapua
- cloud
- (obsolete) mist
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 127
- ^ Wilson, William H. (2012 December) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 51, number 2, page 306
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 145-6
Further reading
- “kapua” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Rapa Nui
Noun
kapua
- fog