tupunan.
/ˈtʊpənə/, U.S. /ˈtʊpənə/, New Zealand English /ˈtupunʌ/, /ˈtʊpənə/ New Zealand.
An ancestor; a grandparent.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun]
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tupuna1845
1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. II. 113 I would do anything else to show you my love and friendship, but you must not ascend my tipuna, or ancestor.
1887 Auckland Weekly News 19 Mar. 8 This stream is called Rangoriri, after an old native tupuna, who fell in and was scalded to death.
1921 F. O'Brien Mythic Isles of S. Seas xviii. 382 He did come back..and to her questions replied that he had had a delightful visit to her tupuna.
1986 Landfall 160 492 Only his ‘tipuna’ had the gift of communication, and now he was dead.
2005 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 26 Nov. I want to challenge Maori to..lift ourselves to a status our tupuna dreamed for us.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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