nekeneke

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication of neke (“to shift, to move”)

Verb

nekeneke

1. to move gradually, to edge, to manoeuvre

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “neke”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 256
• “nekeneke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.