Etymology

Lake Wakatipu

Today it means: A long zigzag-shaped finger lake in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago, New Zealand; its outlet is the Kawarau River. Full definition →

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The story

Borrowed from Māori Whakatipu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.