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Has two sounds, one simple, as that in wind? &c., e.g., wai, water, waka, a canoe, ware, a plebeian.

2. An aspirated w, as in when, where, &c.; whai, follow, whare, a house, &c.

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Title: Grammar of the New Zealand Language

Author: R. Maunsell

Publication details: W. C. Wilson, 1862

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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