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Maori
Etymology
whaka- + nanu (“mixed, jumbled”).
Verb
whakananu (passive whakananua or whakananutia)
- to contaminate
1903 December 1, Rēweti Kōhere, “Te Reo Maori”, in Te Pipiwharauroa, page 2:Kua whakananu te reo inaianei, kua tapiritia ki te reo kihi...E kitea ana e ahau i roto i ngā pukapuka tuku mai ki Te Pipiwharauroa ētahi kupu a te pākehā kahore nei i mārama ki a au he aha rā te tikanga.- language is now contaminated, it has been made gibberish...I have seen letters sent to Te Pipiwharauroa with English words which I did not understand their meanings clearly.
- to confuse, to make something incoherent or unintelligible
- to jumble
- to mix
- Synonyms: natu, konatu, ranu, whakaranu, whāranu
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “nanu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 254
- “whakananu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.