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Japanese
Romanization
wakuwaku
- Rōmaji transcription of わくわく
Maori
Etymology
Reduplication of waku, compare with Tahitian vaʻuvaʻu.
Verb
wakuwaku
- to scrape
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “waku, wakuwaku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 561
- “wakuwaku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Xhosa
Etymology
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Relative
-wakuwaku?
- loose fitting
- Synonym: -ngwabhungwabhu
Inflection