tūpono
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to come upon accidentally, happen, happen by chance, come about, chance upon.
Ka pakeke te tamaiti rā, he tāne, ka haere mai ki te kimi i te pāpā, ka tūpono ki ētahi o Ngāti Porou i Pōneke (M 2006:100). / When that child, a male, grew up he came to look for his father and he came upon some of Ngāti Porou in Wellington.
