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tikitiki

1. (verb) to fetch repeatedly, go back and forth to bring or take things.

Kua mutu noa atu te tikitiki wai i te awa, i te puna rānei, heoi anō ko te huri i te kōrere, ka rere te wai mātao, te wai wera (TTT 1/2/1930:1975). / Fetching water from the stream or spring ended long ago, all you have to do is turn the tap and cold and hot water flows.

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2. (noun) fetching, going and getting (repeatedly).

He tohu tērā kai te ora tētahi reo mēnā ka kaha te tikitiki atu i reo kē (Kāretu 2015). / If a language borrows a lot from other languages, that is a sign that it is alive.

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