umere

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Latin

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Verb

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ūmēre

  1. present active infinitive of ūmeō

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele (compare with Hawaiian mele).[1][2]

Noun

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umere

  1. song, chant
  2. praise, applause

Verb

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umere

  1. to sing, to chant (of a choir)

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 575
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “umere”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

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  • umere” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.