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Maori
Etymology
Reduplication of neke (“to shift, to move”)
Verb
nekeneke
- to move gradually, to edge, to manoeuvre
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “neke”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 256
- “nekeneke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.