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Free from tapu. The incantation (karakia) by which persons who are tapu from having touch the dead are freed and made common (noa).

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References

Source

  • Tregear, Edward. (1891). Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary. Wellington: Government Printer, p. 34.

This article incorporates text from Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891) by Edward Tregear, which is in the public domain.