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tipuna

tipuna is the alternative spelling of tupuna.

Meaning of tupuna

Noun

tupuna (plural tupunas or tupuna or tūpuna)

  1. (New Zealand) An ancestor, especially a grandparent, in Maori culture.
    • […] tupunas are there, beside us, in the rain, and when the sun comes busting out.1998, Janet Hunt, Hone Tuwhare: A Biography, page 139

Forms of tipuna

pluraltipunas
pluraltipuna

Questions about tipuna

What is tipuna the alternative spelling of?
Tipuna is the alternative spelling of tupuna.

Words near tipuna in the dictionary

  1. tipuloid
  2. tipuloidean
  3. tipuloids
  4. tipulomorph
  5. tipulomorphs
  6. tipuna
  7. tipunas
  8. tipus
  9. tipward
  10. tipworthy
  11. TIQC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tipuna (page history and authors); tupuna (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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