kune

See also: kūne, kuně, and kunę

English

Noun

kune

  1. plural of kuna

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

kune

  1. son

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Adverb

kune

  1. together
    kune kun — together with

Italian

Noun

kune f

  1. plural of kuna

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kune – compare with Tuamotuan ʻune, Fijian kune “to appear, to be visible” and kunekune “to conceive a child”[1][2]

Verb

kune

  1. (intransitive) to swell (of fruit, the body)
  2. to be pregnant
  3. to grow, to spring forth

Adjective

kune

  1. plump, round

Derived terms

  • kukune
  • kukunetanga
  • kunekune

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 183-4
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kune”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kune, kukune”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 183-4
  • “kune” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kune (Cyrillic spelling куне)

  1. inflection of kuna:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

kune (Cyrillic spelling куне)

  1. third-person singular present of kleti

Slovak

Noun

kune

  1. dative/locative singular of kuna
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.