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kaika

kaika is the alternative form of kainga.

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

Forms of kaika

pluralkaikas

Questions about kaika

What is kaika the alternative form of?
Kaika is the alternative form of kainga.

Words near kaika in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kaika (page history and authors); kainga (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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