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kuīni

1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to reign as queen.

I te tau 1887 te tiupirī tuatahi o te kuīni, i tae ai ki te rima tekau ngā tau i kuīni ai ia (TP 5/1900:4). / The first jubilee of the queen was in 1887, when it reached 50 years that she had reigned as queen.

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2. (loan) (noun) queen.

Kua tae mai ngā kōrero o te Kīngi me ngā rangatira o Whītī, mō tō rātou whenua, kia mahia ngā tikanga o taua whenua e te Kuīni o Ingarangi (TW 5/8/1874:3). / Word has arrived from the King and chiefs of Fiji concerning their land, that the control of that land be exercised by the Queen of England.

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