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Noun
purupuru
- 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
- caulk
Verb
purupuru
- to stuff, to fill in
- to suppress
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 379
- ↑ 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
- ^ 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.