tipuna/tupuna / tīpuna/tūpuna

ancestor/grandparent / ancestors/grandparents

Ko Tōmuri Te Awa tōku tipuna.
Tōmuri Te Awa is my ancestor.
- this is an example of an equative sentence

The first vowel has a macron for the plural, e.g., tīpuna / tūpuna – ancestors.

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