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kaik

kaik is the alternative form of kainga.

kaik is the alternative spelling of caique.

Meaning of kainga

Noun

kainga (plural kaingas)

  1. (New Zealand, historical) A Maori village.
    • When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […]1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62

Meaning of caique

Noun (1)

caique (plural caiques)

  1. A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
    • Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435

Noun (2)

caique (plural caiques)

  1. Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

Forms of kaik

pluralkaiks

Questions about kaik

What is kaik the alternative form of?
Kaik is the alternative form of kainga.

Words near kaik in the dictionary

  1. Kaihsienkung
  2. kaijin
  3. kaijins
  4. kaiju
  5. kaijus
  6. kaik
  7. kaika
  8. kaikai
  9. Kaikara
  10. kaikas
  11. Kaikasi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kaik (page history and authors); kainga (page history and authors); caique (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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