2. (verb) (-hia,-ina,-ngia) to emerge here and there, appear repeatedly, pop up.
Ka tū te tangata ki te taha o te wai, ka whakaputaputa mai ngā māhunga o aua tuna, he mahara he kawe kai atu mā rātou (TP 8/1903:11). / When a person stands at the water's edge the heads of those eels pop up thinking that she is taking food for them.
3. (modifier) appearing, emerging, expressing.
Ko te hapū nei he hunga noho nehenehe; he hunga whakaputaputa mōhiotanga, arā i mua atu o te tukunga i te whenua nei, ki ngā huarahi i mōhio ai rātau hei putanga moni mā rātau (TP 3/1908:8). / This subtribe is a group who live in the forest; a group providing information about the avenues they knew to acquire money, that is before the land was ceded.
