papatupu
1. (modifier) traditionally owned, customary title, ancestral (of land).
E ai ki tāna i tautohe ai, kāore e taea te whakarite te kāpeneheihana me ka mahue te wāriu i ngā whare Māori, he wāhanga tonu hoki nō te kāinga papatupu, ko tōna wāriu kē i mahia i runga i te tikanga me te aroha Māori (TTR 1998:136). / He argued that compensation could not be determined if the value of Māori buildings, as part of an ancestral village, was left out, its value was made as a result of the culture and Māori concern.
2. (noun) ancestral land - Māori land held under customary title and not having a European title.
Ko taua wāhi, he papatupu,he whenua mau tonu i a mātou (TW 27/7/1878:379). / That place is ancestral land, land we have retained continuously.
See also papatipu
3. (noun) solid mass.
I a au te papatupu o te oneone (W 1971:261). / I had the solid mass of soil.
