kune
- plural ofkuna
kune
- son
kune
- together
- kune kun —together with
kune f
- plural ofkuna
FromProto-Oceanic*kune – compare withTuamotuanʻune,Fijiankune “to appear, to be visible” andkunekune “to conceive a child”[1][2]
kune
- (intransitive) toswell (of fruit, the body)
- to bepregnant
- togrow, tospring forth
kune
- plump,round
- ^Tregear, Edward (1891),Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages183-4
- ^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kune”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, inOceanic Linguistics, volume50, number 2, pages551-559
- Williams, Herbert William (1917), “kune, kukune”, inA Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages183-4
- “kune” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
kune (Cyrillic spellingкуне)
- inflection ofkuna:
- genitivesingular
- nominative/accusative/vocativeplural
kune (Cyrillic spellingкуне)
- third-personsingularpresent ofkleti
kune
- dative/locativesingular ofkuna