DICTIONARY OF THE NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE
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CHAPTER IX.
DICTIONARY OF THE NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
A.
A---of the (genitive of the article)
A!---interjection of surprise
A---if the sound is prolonged, it denotes a continuation of the thing spoken of. It has this signification from being a root, meaning existence, light, action, continued action, eternity. In this sense it enters into the composition of many of the following words
A---and
Ae ra!---yea, yes, truly!
Ae---yes
Ai --- speak, say, speech
Ai--- a particle, used for forming the conjugation of verbs
Aianei---to day, now
A i waenganui po---i\t midnight
Ao---world, light, earth, gather
Ao o te rangi---the light of heaven
Aoatea, i. g., awatea, daybreak
Aonga---davbreak
Aonga o te ra---sunrise
Au---abbreviation of ahau---I
Au---abbreviation of tau---thy
Aua---those
Aua---no, I do not know
Aua hoki---I do not know
Aue!---woe!
Aue --- the lamentation, the woe
Auetanga---groaning, groans
Ahaha?---"What do you say?
Aha?---what? which? Mo te aha---for what or why
Aha rau---a hundred whats or questions
Ahea?---when?
Ahau---I
Ahakoa---nevertheless, whether Aha koia?---what is it? Ahi, contracted ai---fire, light, fiery, to beget, copulation, generation. Ai, ---to speak, is no doubt the same root
Ahi na Maui---the begotten of Maui (native name of New Zealand). By others Ika na Maui, the fish of Maui
Ahinga---time of copulation Ahinga tapu---a house or sleeping-room for a man and his wife
Ahi ahi---evening
Ahinei, i. g. aianei---to-day
Aho ---a fishing line, string, the woof of a cloth, or mat
Ahu---heap together
Ahu ahu---name of a place
Ahua---image, likeness, form, shape
Ahuatanga---appearance
Ahunga---entrance
Ahuareka---form
Ahuareka o nga wae wae---steps of the feet, footmarks
Aka, i. g., haka
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Aka---angular, the knee of a ship's beam; he pou aka---a box
Akau---a cliff, sea-coast, sea-side
Akari, i. g., hakari
Akataina!---an expression of wonder
Ake---up; for instance, Wakatika ake, stand up
Ake---in future
Ake ake ake signifies continuance of existence, eternal, for ever
Akenei---until
Aki---to push along, close to, against
Aki---a rambling shrub (Metrosideros buxifolia)
Akina----stoned, tossed
Aki aki ---a sea-bird
Akiri or Akiritia---cast off
Ako---doctrine, teach, instruct; part, pass., akona
Ako ana---teaching
Akonga---disciple
Aku---mine or my
Akuanei---now, presently
Amata---formerly
Amu amu---murmur, grumble
Amama---gaping
Amo---to bear, a litter
Amowia---carry thou
Amai---tempestuous
Amaitanga---tempest
Amani---a cartridge-box
Amu---eating by morsels
Amua tonu---everlasting
Amua---time to come, future, in future
Ana---his, hers
Ana---den, cave
Ana---corresponding to our doing or being
Ana koa---indeed, it is so
Anake---only; also nake nake
Anamata---some time hence
Anei---these
Aniwaniwa---rainbow
Ano---corresponding to being, doing, remain, rest; also used like an adv., like. Often it can be translated with truly
Anoho---to sit, settle
Anuanua---the rainbow
Anga---work; also hanga---engage, work
Anga atu---turn
Anganga---to meddle, the skull
Anga anga---coalition, cohesion, agree
Angareka, i. g., hangareka
Angi angi---thin as a board or a blanket
Apa, i. g, hapa
Api---clubfeet
Apiti---to curse
Apo---hard dealing, bad, wicked, covetous, to covet
Apopo---to-morrow
Apu, i. g., hapu
Ara!---right! true!
Ara---street, road, arise
Ara ake!---arise!
Arahi --- part, pass., arahina; also araerahi---guide, conduct, lead
Aranga---resurrection, re-ap-pearance
Arara---a fish
Aratakiu---conducted
Arawata --- a ladder, bridge, stairs
Arekeke---undressed flax
Arenga---calling, a mat so called
Arero---tongue
Ari, i. g., hari and its compounds
Ariki---a lord, a chief; the eldest son or daughter being the heir
Aro---skin, fat of the belly, to flay or skin
Aroaro---in the presence of, front. Ki te aroaro o nga tangata katoa---in the presence of all men
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Aroha---love, to love
Arohahina---beloved
Arohatia---beloved
Aropaua---a double net for small fish
Arotau---true, faithful
Aru---follow, pursue, drive, woo, courtship, wooing
Aruaru---to woo, pursue, also a short fishing-net
Aruhe, also aroi, arohi, and arue---f'ernroot
Arukanga, also arunga, aruaruarunga, arumanga (abstract of aru)---persecution, wooing, following
Arumia, i. g., aru
Aruru---name of a place
Atapai---well disposed
Ata---shadow
Ata---prosper
Ata---the morning, sunrise
Ata po---daybreak
Atawatea, or atewatea---midday, noon
Atatu---early in the morning
Atawai---attachment, good will, grace. Matua atawai---foster-father
Atawaitia---to have mercy
Atawaitanga, i. g., atawai
Ataahua---favour
Atamarietanga---humiliation
Atata---daylight
Atamira---bed, coffin, tomb, house for the dead
Ateahiahi---in the e\ening
Atarangi---shadow
Atetahi ra---the day after tomorrow
Ate---liver
Ati ati---drive out
Atuwaana---to distribute
Atua---God, gods. The Supreme Being
Atuahua---fair, beautiful, lovely
Atu---motion from; haere atu ---be off! thither, forth
Atu---used in forming the comparative degree of adjectives
Awa---river
Awa awa---valley
Awaki---two days after tomorrow
Awaki nui atu---three days after to-morrow
Awangawanga---hope; to hope
Awaroa---name of a river
Awatea---light, daybreak
Awi---draw near, entwining, entangling
Awinatia---drawing near, helping
E.
E, or He---indefinite article a or an
E---used for forming the vocative ease: it is either used alone, or with the nom. of the definite article te. E is also used with verbs, and is in that case only the article, the substantive being nothing else but the participle or infinitive; for instance, E noho ki raro---sit down. Literal, a sitting down. The infinitive stands in this case for the imperative
E'. ---exclam. Behold! Alas!
E---verb. See He
Eaha?---which?
Eaoia?---wherefore?
Eono---six
Ehara---negation. No, not
Ehea?---which?
Ehia?---how many?
E hoa---friend, form of address
Ehore---negation. Not
Ekara---sir!
E'ko--- to a little girl!
E'mara---friend!
E'marama---friends!
Engari---that is good
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Engaringari---that is better
Ena---those
Enei---these
Era---those, others
Erangi---a female name
Erangi--- it is better, rather
Erangirangi, idem
Erima---five
Erua---two
Erua erua---both
Etahi ---one
Eta ta---little boy
Etoru---three
Eke---go, walk
Ekenga---fare, conveyance
Ekore---no
Ekore rawa---by no means
Ewa---four
Ewaru---eight
Ewitu---seven
I.
I---in (see Grammar)
I---ablative of the article
I---sign of the past tense
I---than, following a comparative
I---a central point, a centre of motion, pressure
Ina te hau---piercing of the wind
la---he, she, it
la---direction, course
Iaha---why, what for
Iai---beget, to lust after, lustful; the root ahi or ai
la ia---cross veins
Iinu---thirsty, drink
Iheko---skin of a person, bark of a tree
Iho---down, tradition
Ihu---nose, head of a canoe
Ika---fish, to fish
Ike ike --- height, high; also with an aspiration
Iki---nursing, lifting up in the arms; imperat. ikitia
Iko na ra---farewell
I konei---here
Iku---tail
Iku rangi---name of a mountain
Imua---formerly
Ina---affirm, surely
Ina---an old man, grey-headed, hoary, growing hoary
Inahia---when
Inaianei---to-day
Ina mata---anciently, a long time ago
Inau. See Hinau
Inanahi---yesterday
Inapo---last night
Ina tahi ra---the day before yesterday
Ina tetahi ra---three days ago
Ina waki---four days ago
Ina waki nui atu---five days ago
Ine a maru---a bare-headed woman
Ine ono---a scolding woman
Inengaro. See Hinengaro
Inoi; also Hinoi---ask, pray, beg, importune
Inoinga---prayer
Inonoti---painful
Inu---oil, drinkable, to drink, greasy, oily; often with aspiration
Inumia---drink thou
Inu inu---marrow
Inga. See Hinga
Ingoa---name
Ipu---bottle
Ipunamu---bottles
Ira---a mole on the skin
Ira mutu---nephew, niece
Ireira---then, at that time
Iri---hanging, suspending
Iringa---a hanging up, suspension
Iri iri---baptize, sprinkle
Iri iringa---baptism, sprinkling
Iro---grieve
Iroto---within; iroto i te ware ---in the house, amongst; i roto i a koutou --- amongst you
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Irunga---upon
Ite ao---by day
Itenei ra, i te tenei ra---continually
Ite ata---in the morning
Ite atata---in the morning
Ite awatea---at day-break
Ite tahi ra---the day before yesterday
Ite wahinga nui po---the midnight past
Ite watea---the noon past
Ite witinga o te ra---at sunrise
Ite toenetanga o te ra---at sunset
Iti---little, small; iti rawa--- least; causative, wakaiti---to diminish
Iti iti---small, little, very small
Itinga---smallness
Iwa---nine
Iwi---people, tribe, nation, bone
Iwi kau---bones only, lean, thin
Iwi rau---a shell-fish
Iwi tuararo---back-bone
0.
O---genitive of the article, denoting possession
0---thy
0---move, convey, give. See Ho
0 e aki---give up, be quiet
0 mai---give ; properly, move hither
0i --- sufficiently; more frequently heoi
Oioia---wagging
Ou---a feather
Ou---oh!
Ou---thy
Ouma---absconding
Oho---answer, to answer
Ohokai---jump
Ohiohi, to rinse
Ohu ohu---trouble
Oka ; also Hoka --- a sharp-pointed instrument, a bayonet, a fork, a spear
Oka oka---id.
Okahi---stepping or skipping over the ground
Okahinga---stretching out the feet
Okahu---name of a place
Okaka---name of a river
Oke oke---a fish
Oki, or Hoki---to be, return
Oki---trust
Oki oki---refresh
Okinga---return, time of returning
Okiokinga --- rest, repose, return, time of refreshment
Okiokiana---rested
Oma---fly, run
Oko. See Hoko---to buy, exchange
Oko---a vessel to hold a fluid in
Oku---my
Okura---name of a place
Omanga---course
Ona---his
Onamata---of old, formerly
One---earth, soil, sandy shore, ground
One one---id.
One---smelling, lusting as a dog
One pu---sand, sandy soil
Ono. See Hono. He rakau ono---a spliced piece of wood; onoa---unite
Ono---six
Ono te kau---sixty
Ono te rau---six hundred
Ono---woof of a mat
Ono---quarrelsome
Onu----spring water
Ongi---salute by touching noses, saluting, smelling
Ora --- life, health, healthy, healing, well
Oraoraia---dry
Ora---spread; orangia---spread!
Oranoatanga---peril
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Oranga---recovery, renewal, preservation, life, preserved
Orangatanga---id.
Ore, or Hore---no
Ore rawa---not at all
Ore---the boring of a hole
Orokohanganga --- foundation, creation ; o te ao---creation of the world
Orokomeatanga---the beginning
Oro. See Horo---polish, gargle the throat
Ota---raw
Ota ota---all wild herbs, plants, weeds
Oti---is it?
Otiia---but
Otinga---the finishing
Otira---but, on the contrary
Otiraia---but, yet
Owa---salute, to salute
Owanga---nest
Owatanga---greetinc, salutation
U.
U---bird's egg, the breast, nipple, the paps; wai u---milk ; kai u---suckle ; he tamariki kai u---a babe, motion, junction, trust, strengthen
E ua ana---it rains ; also bringing forth or maturing fruit; he po ua---a rainy night
Ua---rain, rainy, to rain
Ua watu---hair wrought into a mat
Uaua---a vein, sinews
Uaua---hard work, travail
Uaki---open ; uakina---open!
Uarahi. See Huarahi Ue te wenua---a fertile spot
Ue. See Hue
Ueo. See Hueho
Ui ui---beg
Ui---inquire, ask, solicit
Uia---a bird (Neomorpha)
Ui tanga roa---a long solicitation
Uinga---a consultation, question
Uira---lightning
Uoro---a kind of eel
Uhi---a covering, curtain
Uka---snow, sugar, froth of the sea, tassels on a mat, foam
Uka uka---hair woven with the tassels of mats
Uma---breast, bosom, arms
Umu---oven
Unga---order, command
Unu---pincers, a blacksmith's vice.
Upu----seize ; upu kia---seize thou
Uke umu---draw the oven
Upoko---head
Unu---draw a sword
Unuhanga---removal
Uri---generation, seed, progeny ; penis, child, son, revolution , succession, posterity. See Huri
Uri papa---the posts or props of a bier
Urongi---helm, or rudder; to steer
Urunga---a pillow
Urupa---sepulchre
Ururuatia---deserted
Ururua --- deserted, laying waste, choke. Wahi ururua---ruins
Uru---life, light, beams, fellowship, partake, glory; kia uru---let there be glory
Uru uru wenua---name of a certain shrub
Uru pua puai---name of a certain wind
Uru wawahi waka---name of a wind
Uta---shore, coast
Utongatia---branded
Utu---reward, pay, fine, price ; he utu ano---there is the price
Utu---draw ; utuhia--- draw
Utua---pay
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Utunga---wares, goods
Una---used to express the feminine gender in animals
Uwa uwa--- tough, veins or main arteries
Uwata---a spear
H.
Ha---breadth, savour, odour
Ha---what!
Hae---rent, tear, dispute, envy
Hae hae---id.
Haere---go; also aire or aere
Haere mai---come
Haere atu----go out, leave
Haerenga---a walk, arrival
Haerengatanga---a journey
Hao---catch
Haerere---walking about
Haere marie---go in peace
Hau---abbrev. for ahau, I
Hau---strike, hew, chip with an adze
Hau---wind, air, whirl, blow
Hauhake---labourers in the harvest, gather, take up
Hauhakinga---harvest
Haumi---joints at the head and stern of a canoe
Haumumu---a silent person
Hau auru---west, west wind, blowing from the west
Haue---sooth
Haueunga---ice
Haukomingo---a whirlpool
Hauraro--- north-west, north-west wind, blowing from the north-west
Hauhautanga---coolness, cool
Haurahi---dew
Hauru---name of a shellfish
Hau nui---a tempest
Haupa---a beating wind
Hau papa---snow, ice
Hauparo---a long beating wind
Hauraki---name of a place
Haurake---a steady pace, moving steadily
Haururutanga---blowing of the wind
Haunga ano, haunga---with exception, because, besides
Haurangi --- a fool, drunkard, foolish, drunk, mad
Haurangitia --- foolish
Haurorangi--- to hang up, to suspend
Hauroro---a long wind
Hauna---a piece of wood joined to the stern of a canoe
Haute---a play so called
Hautoke------winter
Hauwenua---a land wind
Hahare---sealing-wax
Hahi---church, Anglic.
Haka---a dance, a song, a war-dance. He tangata haka---a dancer
Hakari---a feast of peace where presents of fish are brought by the. visitors; also birds' eggs, roe of a fish, seed of anything
Haki---neck
Hamama --- yawning, gaping ; also Amama and Hamumu
Hana---a vault for the dead
Hanahana---lustre, brightness, bright, glorious, shining, to shine
Hane---a war instrument
Hani---water
Hanga---work, labour, to work, make
Hangarau---dcceitfulness
Hangareka---funny, joking, a joke
Hanganga--- buildings, work, creation
Hangi---a native oven
Hapa---crooked, indirect, unfair, neglected
Hapainga---lifting up, raising up
Hapu---tribe, family
Hapu---pregnant, be pregnant
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Haputanga---pregnancy
Hara---crime, debt, sin, transgression
Harakoretanga---innocence
Hari, sometimes without the aspiration; ari---dance, joy, happy, blessed, joyful, enjoy, leap, rejoice, joyfully
Hari ana, waka hari---causing a joy
Haringa---joy
Hari hari--- transported with joy, leaping with joy
Haro---dressing flax
Haronga---the dressing of the flax
He---the indefinite article aspirated
He---a fault, unjust, mistaken, erring, erroneously
He hunga he---bad men
He!---exclamation of surprise
Heaha---what
Heanga---a mistake
Hei---here
Hei---like; the indefinite article
Hei---necklace, keepsake
Heoi ano---it is enough, that will do
Heoti---henceforth
Heu---a razor
Heke---come down, destroy, vanish
Heke---a wreck, a slip, change of a place, descend
Hemo---slip, change the place, faint
Hera---gaping
Herakiaki---green dried flax
Here---a spear for pigeons
Herehere---captive, slave
Herenga---cord, string
Heru---a comb, combing
Hewa---sneeze
Hi---exclam. of anger
Hi---threaten
Hi---fishing
Hia---an affix to verbs for forming the imperative mood and passive form
Hia---how many; po hia---how many days
Hianga---lying, offence
Hia hia---wish, desire, will; construct with la
Hiahiatia ---desire
Hiainu---thirsty
Hiakai---hungry
Hiako---skm, leather, made of skin or leathei, thongs, a vine
Hiamoe----sleepy
Hiawero---tail of a dog
Hihi---beams of the sun, hair tied like horns, on each side of the forehead
Hihi karu---the whiskers of a cat
Hihi o te tote---sparkling of the salt
Hikaro---pluck out
Hiku---reward
Hiko---tail
Hikorangi---name of a mountain
Hinamoki---a seahorse
Hinau --- a tree, the bark of which is used as black dye, e
Hinengaro---kidney, desire, desirous, mind, conscience
Hinu---drink, drinkable
Hinu---oil
Hinu hinu---marrow
Hinga---a fall, falling
Hinganga---fall
Hipoki---cover, a cover, lid
Ho---to give ; also homai
Hoa---fnend, neighbour, generous
Hoa riri---enemy; e hoa ma, friends
Hoa wawai---enemy
Homaitanga---gift
Hoari---sword
Hoatunoa---a gift
Hoatutautanga---an offering
Hoatutanga---gift
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Hoe---an oar, paddle ; low, paddle ; he waka hoe---a rowing-boat, he waiata hoe ---a boat-song
Hoe hia---sail, or paddle: let us paddle
Hoe hoe---side fins of a fish
Hoenga---sailing, pulling, time of sailing
Hou---spade
Hou---new, sweet, strange
Houtanga---newness, new
Houhia he rongo---to forgive
Hohou---making; peace
Hohou rongo---peacemaker
Hohonu---deep, the deep, depth
Hohonutanga --- depth, deepness, deep
Hohoro---run, to be in a hurry, quick, quickly, swift
Hohuro, also Hohuro anga---a mill
Hoki---particle, used informing verbs as a kind of auxiliary
Hoki mai---come back
Hoki and oki---return, contrary; for instance, the wind
Hokinga---time of returning
Hokianga---name of a river, name of a place
Hoko---buy, he tangata hoko--- a trader
Hokonga---an exchange, a bargain
Honoanga, also Hononga---a union, a splice
Hono---a joint, a splice, join, splice, he rakau hono --- a spliced piece of wood
Hori hori---a lie
Hopuatanga---a place
Hopukina---to perceive
Hope---loins, abdomen, body of an army
Hopenga---refuse of an army, rejected party
Hopua---a river, to dram
Horahi, also Hora---spread
Hore---not
Hore rawa rawa---not at all
Horo mia---swallow
Horongia---to swallow
Horohi---soap, wash
Horohia----washed
Hotete---a caterpillar. the so-called vegetable caterpillar
Hotoke, also Hautoke---winter
Hoko hoko---exchange, to buy
Hokoko---to sell
Hokonga---a bargain
Hongia---to salute
Hua--- fruit, te po hua---the time of fruit, e hua ana---be fruitful
Hua kore---unfruitful, barren
Hua --- call, name, huaina--- called, named
Huanga---kindred, relations
Huanui----high road
Huarahi---way, road
Hue, or ue---a gourd, calabash, cucumber
Huehue---side by side
Hueho---the navel-string
Huere---saliva
Hui---gather, knit, unite
Hui huia---id.
Hui huinga---gathering
Hui huitia---together
Huhi--- affliction, afflict
Huhu---moth, grub
Huhu---strip, lay bare
Huhuti, i. g., huti
Huhuatanga---beauty
Huka, i g, uka---snow, frost, sugar
Hukarere---snow, frost, hoar
Hukerikeri---work, toss , used
of the sea
Hu, or Huna --- concealment, hide, concealed, privately
Huna hunanga---a concealment
Hunaonga---daughter-in-law
Hunga---people, an appendage
Hunga mate---patients
Hunga ora---healthy people
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Hunga noho---guest
Hunga wai, or Hunga wai wahine---mother-in-law
Hunga rawa nui---rich people
Hunga rawa kore---poor people
Hunga tapu---a priest
Hunga onga wahine --- daughter-in-law
Hupe---smell, secretion of the nose
Hura---revealed, opened
Huri---grind, incline, overthrow
Hurihia---overthrown, turn it round
Huri huri---revolve
Huringa---a turn round
Hurianga---id.
Huru (see Uru) ---hair, light, beams, a mat so called
Huru huru -- hair; huru huru hipi---sheep wool
Huru rua---choke
Huru tara---feather of a gannet
Huti---weed, root up, turn
Huti huti---id.
Hutia---weeded, plucked
Hutinga---a turn, a place cleared of weeds
Huwa---thigh
Huware---spittle
K.
Ka---a prefix used, in forming the participle, the perfect and future tenses of verbs; also a mere prefix at the beginning of phrases, when it serves as an auxiliary verb--- it is, or this is
Ka---a rising flame, animation, vigorous, burn
Kaahatia---it cannot be helped
Kaeo taiepa---rail for a fence
Kai---food, victuals, eatable, to eat, taste, live, men, people ; also a kind of kumera
Kai aho---biting the fishing-line
Kaia---stump of a tree to hang tabooed things on
Kai kawe---messenger
Kai iriiri---people that baptize or sprinkle
Kai hauhake---labourers in the harvest
Kai wakaatu---witness
Kai tara---food for gannets
Kai tiaki---guardian
Kai toke---food for worms
Kai tohe---a man who tempts
Kai tuku---fisherman
Kai tangi---mourner, mourners' food
Kai mahi---labourer
Kai mahi o te kai puke---sailor
Kai mata---raw food
Kai tuku---traitor
Kai rawa---a greasy mouth after a meal, the remains of victuals
Kai rui---a sower
Kai wakaako --- teacher
Kai poka---witness
Kai waki---witness
Kai ora---wholesome victuals
Kai para---name of a place
Kai puke---a ship
Kai taka---name of a fine ornamental mat
Kai atua---name of a tree
Kai ahi ahi---supper
Kai po---night's meals
Kai ponuhia---spare
Kainga hoko---a market
Kainga---village, country, place, a home, a meal
Kaihu---name of a place
Kai hune!---an oath
Kai manu---bird's food
Kaiwaka---name of a place
Kai wakahau---a leader
Kai wakato te ture---teachers of the law
Kai we---food for caterpillars
Kai kaha---wholesome victuals
Kaokao---side
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Kaore---no, not
Kauaka---do not
Kaua---not, do not, reject it
Kauae---beam of a house, the crossbeam or joist of a house
Kau ote kanohi---pupil of the eye
Kau---only, purely, without addition, naked
Kau---dried sweet potatoes
Kaua kaua (kawa) --- a shrub of the pepper kind {Piper ex-celsum), bitter, strong, natural alum
Kauhoehoe---swim
Kau---swim ; kau te awa--- swimming in the river
Kau matua---forefathers, elders, ancestors
Kauri---a pine-tree (Dammara Australis) ; also its resin
Kauta--- cooking-house, kitchen
Kautia---empty, for nothing
Kaukau---wash, to anoint; kaukauria---wash thou
Kau uri---a stick which, by friction upon another, produces fire
Kauweti---the stick on which fire is produced by friction
Kauwau---a shag, preaching
Kauwautia---preach
Kauwautanga---preaching
Kauwitiwiti---a grasshopper
Kaha---power, strength, strong, strongly
Kahaka --- a cup, calabash
Kahawai---a favourite and common fish
Koheru---spade, hoe
Kahi---a stamp with the foot, a treading upon, a pressing upon, or binding
Kahi katea---name of a tree (Dacrydium excelsum)
Kahi katoa---{Leptospermum)
Kahi---a comb made of the bones of a fish
Kahu---mat, garment, clothing
Kahu ara---a walking garment
Kahu wairo---name of a garment with dog's hairs
Kahu kiwi---name of a garment with the feathers of the apte-rix
Kahu kura, kahu kupenga--- names of garments
Kahu---name of the hawk
Kahore---no, refusal
Kahui--- a herd
Kaka----burn; see Ka
Kaka---a parrot {Nestor Austral is)
Kaka---fibres in vegetables, fernroot
Kakai --- gluttonous ; he tangata kakai---a glutton
Kakau---the handle of a knife, fork, axe, spade
Kakahi---name of a fish
Kakaho---reeds
Kakahu --- a garment, a mat, wear; kakahuria---put on
Kakamo---winking of the eve
Kakanapa---a green
Kake---to go, to ascend
Kakenga---an ascent
Kaki---neck, back part of the neck
Kaki---full; kia kaki---fill it
Kamate---very ill
Kakano---seed of a tree, stone of a fruit
Kanae---the mullet
Kanapa---bright, green, shining
Kanapatanga---brightness
Kakariki---a green parroquet, a green lizard, green
Kakara---sweet odour, sweet-scenting
Kako---planting
Kakou---the constellation Orion
Kakawa---perspiration, perspire
Kakawariki, i. g., kakariki---a small lizard
Kakuku---a doubled fist
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Kamaka---a rock, stone, stony
Kanawa---an eye
Kanga---corn, maize
Kanga --- an oath, swearing, blasphemous, a curse
Kane---a file, saw, filing, sawing, kanehia---saw, sawing the timber
Kane kane, id.
Kani kani---a dance, to dance, a game so called
Kanoe---chin
Kanohi---eye, face
Kanga kapura---a fire-hearth
Kanohi paua---name of a sweet potato
Kapana---a potato
Kape---transgress, pull
Kapia---resin, gum
Kapi---to furnish
Kapiti---Entry Island
Kapu---an adze, tail of a crayfish
Kapua---cloud, air
Kapu na ringa ringa---palms of the hands
Kapura---a burning fire, burning coal
Kara---name of a certain stone
Kara---to an elder person; e kara ---an affectionate address to an elder person
Kara ma---an affectionate term for father
Karahu---name of a shellfish
Karaka---a fruit-tree (Coryno-carpus Iaevigatus), general name for fruit
Karakia---a prayer, praying
Karakiatanga---a time of prayer
Karama roa --- a flaming torch
Karanga---call, shout, bell, calling ; karangatia---called, call thou
Karangahape---name of a place
Karangatanga---call
Kara ngau ngau---name of a shellfish
Karangu---name of a tree
Karapa---squint, squinting
Karapepe---fermenting
Karapoi noa---open, lift
Karapoti---besiege, close m
Karapa---a square, parallelogram
Kararehe---a beast, animal
Kararehe wa tangata---a horse, or beast that carries a man
Kararehe wa wahia---a bullock, or beast with horns
Karatete---proud, angry
Karawa, i g , karawa kiko---a stripe on the flesh
Karawarawa---stripes
Karawa---a dissolution, dissolving
Karawaka---name of a shellfish
Kare---reflecting
Karenga---reflection
Kareao---a wild vine (Smilax)
Karere---messenger, a signal
Karetu---name of a plant
Karipi---cutting
Karu---the head of an animal, fish, beast, &c
Karuru---operating in a close place
Kati---shut, sufficiently, enough, be quiet, let it alone
Katipa---walking upright
Katoa---all
Kata---laughter, laughing, jocular, merry
Katakatangia---scorch
Katipo---a black spider on the seashore, regarded as poisonous
Katoatia---all
Kawai---name of a fish
Kawaka --- pine-tree (Dacrydium plumosum)
Kawaki---carry off, kawakina ---carried off'
Kawana---governor (Angl)
Kawanatanga --- government (Angl)
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THE DICTIONARY.
Kaware---a shellfish
Kawe---a yoke
Kawea---to lead, he hunga kawe riri---a quarrelsome man
Kaweka---a ridge on the accent of a hill
Kawenga---leading
Kawia---name of a place
Ke---different, foreign, differently, change, he mea ke--- a different thing, he tangata ke---a different man, a foreigner
Keha---a turnip
Ke, or kei---stern of a canoe, the point or place where a distant or different object is stationed
Kei---with
Kei---not
Keihea---where? kei hea ionei ---where?
Keihei---where7
Kei konei---here
Keka---the end of a bone
Keokeonga---pinnacle, summit, corner
Kekerehu---a beetle
Kekeno---a seal
Keke---the cramp, armpits
Keretu---clay
Ken---boisterous being boisterous
Keri --- digging , keria --- dig thou
Keri Keri---name of a river
Keriu---the bottom, as for instance, of a boat
Kete---basket
Ketu---the act of displacing a corpse
Kewai---fresh-water crawfish
Ki---speak, na wai ki? who said it?
Ki---into, in, to, upon, of
Ki---conversation
Ki---fulness, full, filling
Kinga---fulness
Kianga---a covenant, conversation
Kiano---fulfil, fill
Kia---a prefix used in forming the imperative and subjunctive of verbs
Kia hari---be joyful
Kiore---a rat
Kihai---not
Kiki---straight, narrow, adhesion, adhering, conversing, cleave together
Kikiwa---a winking, pressing the eyelids close together
Kikino---bad
Kiko kiko, also kiko---flesh
Ki koina---there, pointing to the place
Ki konei---here, m this place
Kiraro---down, below
Kirunga---upon
Ki matau---to the light
Ki mua---before
Ki muri---behind
Kiwaho---out
Ki maui---to the left
Kinonga---badness
Kino--- bad
Kinotia---hate, oppress
Kina---a sea-egg
Kini---a pinch with the finger
Kiritia---point with my finger
Kiri ---fever, skin
Kiri e hau---naked skin, skin exposed to the wind
Kiri piro --- a stinking skin
Kiri kiri---gravel
Kiri paka---a flint
Kita, or kitea---see, discern, understand, perceive
Kitenga---a sight
Kiwi---name of a bird (Apterix Australis)
Kiwi kiwi, id
Koau--- a coward
Ko---a tool with which the natives plant their sweet potatoes , perforating
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Ko---a young girl
Ko---a particle used very commonly before substantives, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs, and in the beginning of sentences
Koa---joy, content, satisfied, joyful
Koa koa, id.
Koara---rending, tearing
Koahea---how long
Koe---thou
Koe koe---a shrub
Koewetewete---murmured
Koi---a point, sharp, sharpening
Koi koi---point of a spear, a bayonet
Koia---yes, truly
Koihe---departed, dead
Koinga --- the edge, a sharp edge, a station formed by a point
Koingo---mourn
Koiripi---a looseness
Koiuru---a putting together of heads, as into a basket
Koiwe---collecting caterpillars
Koiwi---a skeleton, a corpse
Koura---the cray fish
Koutou---you
Koututu---a small fishing-net
Koha---fog, mist
Kohi kohia---gather, collect
Kohu----a mist, fog
Kohua---a native oven, a pot
Kohuru --- murder, murderer, murderous, murdering, slaying ; e hunga kohuru --- a murderer
Kohurutia --- to lay wait and slay
Kokako---name of a bird
Koki---limping
Kokiri---dipping, darting, appearing, springing up, launching, a dart or short spear
Kokiri tia---cast or dart
Kokiritanga---a time of casting away or darting anything
Koko---a spoon, a working tool
Koko---lean
Kokonga---a corner
Kokopu --- a small fresh-water fish
Kokorutanga---an harbour
Kokota---a cockle so called, a joiner's plane
Kokoti---cut off, reap, circumcise
Kokoto---name of a fish
Kokowai---red ochre for painting the skin
Koma---a tool so called
Komaru---sail of a canoe
Komata mata---the toe
Koma tora---an open fist
Komimi---name of a river
Komiri---cleaning
Komo komo---a blinking null the eye
Komotia---casting into, putting into
Komukumuku---rubbing
Konanunanu --- mix; he mea konanunanu---a mixture
Konake---a slip with the foot
Kone---a slip with the buttocks
Kongangi---chewing
Konewatanga---twinkling
Konga konga --- crumbs
Kopa---lame, shot, maimed
Kopa---lock of a gun
Kopanga---a place for a partition
Kopapa---a sort of canoe
Kopaki---husks
Koparu paru---miry
Kope---a pistol
Kopere---a bow
Kopi---shut
Kopiko---a curvature, a cripple, turning, bending
Kopiri---lameness of the feet
Kopipi---gathering of cockles, also a sort of cockles
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THE DICTIONARY.
Kopiro---falling into the water
Kopu---the belly, womb
Kopu---the morning star
Kopua---the bed or deepest part of a river, the double teeth
Kopuku---name of a garment
Kopu pungawa---reed, bulrush
Koputa puta---a shellfish
Kora kora---a spark of fire
Koramo---a shellfish
Korau---an esculent fern-tree (Cyathea medullaris)
Koraha---desert, wilderness, deserted
Korari---flax
Kore---no, not, broken, the rent
Korenga---venting
Korero kino---swearing
Korero---speaking
Korerotia---spoken
Korewatanga---twinkling
Korerotanga---a speech, time of speaking
Koro---address; E Koro---friend
Koroeke---an old man
Koroha---a bush
Koroke---a stranger, fellow (in contempt)
Koro koro---throat, toes
Koroi----berries of the Kahikatea pine
Koro iti---little finger
Koro matua---thumb, great toe, a teacher
Koropiha---a pool
Koropiko---bend down, bend, worship, kneel
Koro punga punga---pumice-stone
Koroputa---neck of a bottle
Koropupu---boil; Koropuputia ----boil thou
Kororareka --- sweet penguin, ---name of a place
Korora---a penguin
Kororerohia---stir up
Kororia ---glory
Kororiatanga---splendour, glory
Korotu---the lower border of a garment
Korua---two, to be engaged in something
Kota---a plane iron, a shell for scraping
Kotaha---a war instrument
Kotahi---one
Kotahitanga---unity
Koti---divide, cut
Koti koti---a cutting instrument, scissars, cutting
Kotinga---a piece, time of reaping, harvest, boundary, circumcision
Kotiro---a young girl
Koto koto---a rope so called, made use of in a canoe
Kotore---the straight gut
Kotore----pipe-clay
Kotuwanga---a sort of stone
Konai---the chin
Kowai or K'wai---who?
Kowao---a hole
Kowara rito---bud of a tree
Kowatu --- stone, hail, rock, rocky
Kowera---yawning
Kowiuwiu---fan, broom, to fan
Kowete wete---disputing, whispering ; He hunga Kowete-wete---slanderer
Kowititanga o te rnarama---the new moon
Ku---a peg for a mat
Kua---prefix for forming the perfect tense of verbs
Kua po te ra---the sun is gone down
Kua pau---it is done!
Kuao---a young male beast, a pig, a colt
Kuangahuru---the tenth, tithe
Kuia---an old woman, an affectionate term for mother
Kuihi---speech
Kueti--- straight
Kuhu---a game so called
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Kuhua---hide
Kuku---anything that holds fast, as a vice, pincers, tongs, also name of a shellfish
Kuku ---a pigeon, a term used for birds generally
Kukumi---protracted, extended, dilated
Kukupa---a pigeon
Kumara---sweet potato
Kumea --- pulling, drawing, pushing, hauling (the seine)
Kumete---a vessel to hold victuals, water-trough
Kumi---ten fathoms
Kumu---the anus
Kumu kumu---name of a fish, beard
Kupako---a sound as of anything approaching
Kupanga---a corner for a ship to anchor in
Kupenga---a seine, fish-net
Kupu --- agreement, promise, saying, answer, words
Kupu huna ana---speaking in a parable
Kura---red
Kura kura---very red
Kura tau----a year in which there is much battle, bloodshed
Kuri---a dog, a young dog
Kuru---the fist
Kurua---strike with the fist
Kurupai---a cross
Kuru tou---the long feathers in a bird's tail, the tail
Kuru tongia---thin soil
Kuruhi---an old woman
Kuta---a louse
Kutu---id.
Kutu kutu---an insect, a worm
Kuwaha---a gate
Kuware---a fool, an ignorant man, ignorant, to believe
Kuwaretanga---ignorance
Kuwaru---name of a shell-fish
M.
Ma---white, pure, clean, pale ; kia ma koutou---be you clean
Ma, i.g., mo---for
Ma --- conjunctive particle for numerals, and
Ma---giving
Maenene---soft
Mai---name of a tree, ' Dacrydium'
Mai---i. g. matai
Maia---be joyful, forthcoming, apparent, exposing
Mai---here, hither; used as an affix to verbs; haere mai--- come
Maiatanga---boldness, courage
Mairitawaka---name of a tree, ' Eugenia Mairi'
Maieore---skinning, pulling off the skin
Mairi---name of a tree
Maitiko---toes
Maiki---to nurse, pressing to the breast
Maori---indigenous, native, natural; haere maori---walking, as a native has no other chance; wai maori --- fresh water
Maoritanga---native custom, natural use
Mau---of thine, for thee
Mau---take, fetch, bear; mauria mai---bring hither
Maua---we two
Maua---ripe, cooked
Mauahara --- hate, malice, to hate, hatred
Maui---left (hand)
Maui---a person of tradition
Mauiuitia---suffer, labour
Maumaunia---wasting
Maumau --- taking, waste, to waste, name of a fish, in vain
Maumau uaua noa---labour in vain
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THE DICTIONARY.
Mauria mai---bring
Maunu---bait for a fish-hook, baiting, biting, or being caught
Maunga rongo---peace
Maunga---a mountain, ripe, wholesome
Mahana --- warmth, warm, warming
Mahanga---net
Mahanga---twins
Mahara---consider; maharatia, considered, wise, careful, good
Maharatanga---knowledge, prudence, thought
Maha---many, much
Maheau---verandah
Maheoro --- an entrenchment, ditch
Mahi---work, industrious, working ; Mahia---to work
Mahi wawe---work quickly done
Mahinga---work, a job, work-time
Mahiri---naming a child
Mahitia---to work
Mahue---to loose, forsake, desert
Mahunga---head
Mahuri---plant
Maka-wild
Maka---casting off, throwing away, an eruption
Makamaka---cast
Makarii---repelling
Makariti---cold
Makawe---hair of the head
Maki---the last survivor of a tribe
Mako---name of a fish
Mako wakakai---an ear-drop made of the tooth of the fish called mako
Mako mako---name of a bird
Makona---fill, satisfy, satiety
Makona tanga---filling
Maku---me, I
Maku---wet
Makuku---wet, watered
Makuru---the premature falling of fruit
Makutu---witchcraft, bewitching, enchanting
Mama---light, not heavy
Mamae---pain, painful, sore, distressing, afflict, hurt
Mamai---mouth
Mamaha---exhalation, breath
Mamaru---rays of the sun
Maminga---a lie, a liar
Mana---for him
Mana --- command, authority, power
Manako---worthy, acceptable, remembrance
Manakohanga --- remembrance, savour, acceptable
Manakohia ana---to be acceptable
Manane---smooth
Manatunga---keepsake
Manawa --- breath, courage, courageous, spirited
Manawa nui---good cheer
Manawa pa---an overflowing spirit, envious
Manawanuitanga---patience
Manawa tawi --- the islands called the Three Kings
Manene---stranger
Maniia---a plain
Mano---a thousand, the multitude
Manuea---a shrub (Leptosper-mum ericoides)
Manu---a bird, a kite
Manuka---a shrub (Leptosper-mum scoparium)
Manukao---name of a place
Manuwiri---a stranger, a traveller
Manuhiri---id.
Manga---branch, twig, graining of a tree, name of a fish
Manga kahia---a mountain so called
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Mangai---mouth
Mange mange---a fish-hook
Mangere---idle, idling, loitering
Mango---a shark
Mango pare---a shell-fish so called
Mangonui---name of a place
Mangu---black, blacking, black dye
Mangu mangu---id., blackness
Mangungu---break
Mapuna---enclosed in a stone
Mara---a farm, field
Mara---friend! emara---friend!
Marae---a yard, court
Maraenui---name of a place
Maraetahi---name of a place
Marama---moon, month, light
Marama---light, clear, pleasant
Maramatanga---light
Marangai---east, east wind
Marangai hau raro---north-east; Tonga marangai---south-east
Marara ke---go astray
Mare---cough, coughing
Marere---falling down, dead
Mari---it is good
Marie---peaceful, simple, quiet, still, serene
Mariu---spots upon the skin
Marino---smooth, calm; for instance, the sea
Maringi---running out, dropping
Maringi---menstrua
Maripi---knife, sword
Maro---a mat so called, extend, a fathom
Marohirohi---prosper
Maroi---fern-root
Maroke---dry, to dry
Maru---extinguish, kill, break, bruise, tear, shadow, shade
Maru maru---a shade
Marunga --- death, a murder, killing
Mata---face, appearance
Mata---raw, uncooked
Matai, i. g., mai
Mata---musket-ball
Mataara---watch
Mataaratanga---watch ; o te po ---night-watch
Matao---cold
Matakiri---eyelids
Matakitaki---look at, observe, notice
Mataku, fear, fright, fearful, to fear
Matauranga --- wisdom, knowledge
Matau---to know, to understand, to teach, skilful, wise
Matau---right hand
Matau---fishhook
Matapo---blind
Mata mata, also Mataue ---name of a place
Matamua---firstling, first-born, first
Matanawe---scar, mark
Matangerengere---hard
Matangi---the air, the extension of the intestines after death
Matapihi---window
Matapiko---hiding the face by hanging down the head
Matara---refuge
Matarangi---horizon
Matarehe---sort of fresh-water eel
Matariki---the Pleiades Matatoua---looking earnestly at another
Mate mate---die
Mate---sick, desirous, needful, dead, dying
Mate wai---thirsty
Mate kai---hungry
Mate ika---illness from eating fish
Mate toru---thick
Matemoe, also Materawa --- dead
Matia---an arrow, a spear, dart
Mate awa---severe illness, death
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THE DICTIONARY.
Matenga---head, time of death
Mate huna---fretting, concealed affliction
Matinga rawa---death
Mati hau---nails of fingers
Matikara---finger
Matiki---a fish-hook
Matikuku---nails, toes
Mutikuku wae wae---toe-nails
Mato mato---green
Matoke---cold
Matou---we
Matu---flesh
Matua---a parent
Matua tane --- father; matua wahine---mother One matua---primitive soil
Matua keke---uncle
Matuaranga o te po---the watch of the night
Mawa---soft, done, cooked
Mawera---open
Mawete---untie the garment
Mawiti---coming forth
Mawi, i. g., Maui---a mythological personage
Mawiti witi---locusts
Me---and, or, a particle used in comparing, like
Mea---a thing, gift, cause
Mea---speaking, saying
Meatia---give, done, become
Meatu---speak
Meanga---word, command
Meinga---a word, a deed
Meinga mai---tell, speak
Meireira---then
Meuimeui---gather
Meka meka---chain, necklace, bands, halter
Meke---a dwarf
Mere---a war-club
Merimeri---the evening star
Merekara --- great words, eloquence
Memenge---withered, decayed
Memeha---vanish, cut off
Meme---muttering, enchanting
Mia---a particle, affixed to verbs in the imperative mood and passive form
Miharo---wonder, to be astonished
Mihi---sigh, sighing
Mihinga---sighing, moaning
Mimi ----urine, urinous, make water
Mine---assemble
Minamina---desire
Mimiki---absorbing, drying up
Mira---a tomb, place of repose
Mire---minced meat
Miri---rubbing
Miro --- name of a pine-tree (Podocarpus ferruginea)
Miro --- thread, spinning thread
Miro miro, id.
Miru---a bubble, a rill of water
Miti---licking
Miti miti---licking
Mo---for Moa----fossil bones of a struthious bird of that name
Moana---the sea, ocean
Moaniani----flat
Moe---sleep ; to sleep, dream
Moemoea----dream
Moehewa ---vision, dream
Moe koroha---asleep in the bush
Moenga---bedtime, bed, couch
Moenaku---dream
Moepuku---fornication
Moe tahae---adultery, commit adultery
Moe tuturu---placing the heads of enemies upon the pins used in making mats
Mou---for thee
Mou---take
Moi moi---dog
Mohio---to know, understand
Mohiotanga---understanding
Moiri he hau---a corpse exposed to the wind
Moka---worm, maggot
Moka.---a shroud
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Mokai---a labouring man
Mokai kai---preserved human heads
Moke---desolate
Moke moke---alone, desolate
Moki---name of a fish
Moku---for me
Moko---the tattooing or marking of the face
Mokonei---therefore
Mokomokai --- the preserved human heads
Mokomoko---a small lizard
Moko puna---a grandchild, nephew, niece
Moko taniwa---an ear-ornarnent
Momi momi---kissing, saluting
Momo---seed, offspring
Momoe---sleeper, sleep
Momona---fat, sweet, delicious
Momoto---a box with the fist
Mona---servant
Mona---for him
More---light
Morenga --- club for beating fern-root
Morere---a swing for children
Morunga---head on the top of a pole
Moriore---exclamation used in sneezing
Moti---last survivor of a family
Moto---a blow with the fist
Motoi---a person neglected at meals
Motu---an island, alone, standing apart
Motuke---apart, separated
Motuhia ketia---separated
Motumotu---divide
Mowiti---a ring
Mu---a particle used with other words denoting the extremity
Mua---before; i mua, aforetime, formerly
Mua---the eldest (son)
Muhanga---working at the extremity of anything
Muka---flax prepared
Mumura---sparks of fire
Mungea---itch
Muna---the ringworm, a circular scar
Muna muna---id.
Muri---henceforth, in future, behind; a muri, after
Muri kokai---the back of the head
Muringi---scattering
Muri wenua---landsend, name of the most northern parts of the island
Muri motu --- Endisland, an island off the North Cape
Muru ---wiping, rubbing, polishing
Muru --- forgive, spoil, rob, bruise; taonga muru, prey
Murua---id.
Murunga---cleared land
Mutu---the end, ending, finishing
Mutunga---the end
Mutumutu---end, final; ekore a mutumutu---continual, without end
Mutunga kore---without end, everlasting, eternal
Mura---light, flame
Muramura---id.
Mure---name of a fish
Muwaru---a grub, worm
N.
Na---now, behold ; used in beginning a phrase, an argument
Na---of the
Nau---come ; nau mai---come hither
Nahe nahe---separating
Naho---a species of potato
Nake---only
Nakoa?---why not?
Naku---of me, of mine
Namu---a muskito
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THE DICTIONARY.
Nana --- behold, because, for, listen
Nana---of him
Nanu---agony, groans, quarrel
Nanakia---terrible
Napo---last night
Nara---healthful
Nawake---three days ago
Nawake nui---four days ago
Nawi---a rush, the scar of a wound
Ne---a particle to signify a removal or change of place
Nei---hither
Nehu---dust
Neke----remove; neke mai --- come nearer; kia nekehia koe---remove thou; neke atu ---go away
Nekehia ketia---depart
Neko --- a garment
Nene---slipping easily
Nia---a particle affixed to the root of verbs for forming the imperative
Nihau---the gunnels of a canoe
Niho---tooth; niho tunga --- a rotten tooth
Nikau---the cabbage palm (Areca sapida)
No---of, denoting possession
No---for
Noa---free, disengaged, common
Noatia---without cause
Nou---of thee or thine
Nohea koia?---where was it?
Nohea---whence from
Nohinohinga---smallness
Nohi nohi---little, small, light, easy
Nohoia---inherit
Noho---sit down, fix, not moving, stop, fast
Noho puku---fasting stomach
Nohopukutanga---fasting
Noho iho---sit down
Nohoanga---presence, seat, habitation
Nohowanga---id.
Nohu---sinking with pain
Noke---walking to a distance, change the situation
Nokona---then
Noku---of mine
No mua---in old times
Nona---of his
No naianei---the present time
Nonohi;---little, small; nonohi rawa----the smallest
Nope---a gnawing pain
Nui---great, large
Nuinga --- abundance, fulness, size
Nuinui---very great
Nuitia---openly
Nuku---squeezing, pressing
Nuku mai---come close to me
Nukua mai---id.
Numi numi---afraid, confounded
Ng.
Ng is pronounced like a g with a nasal sound
Nga---article for the plural num-ber
Ngau---bite, gnaw
Ngaua---pains
Ngaue---tremble, quake
Ngaueue---id.
Ngaueuetia---shake it
Ngaueue wenua---earthquake
Ngahau---break forth, issue
Ngohoro---fall
Ngakau---heart
Ngakihi---a button, a shell-fish
Ngaki---tilling the ground ; to kai ngaki wenua---farmers
Ngakinga---a farm
Ngako---fat
Ngamu, i. g., namu
Ngamu ngamu---id.
Nga motu --- the Sugarloaf Islands
Nganga---dregs, residue, a tumult
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Nganga---a human skull
Nganga rangi---a kind of potato
Ngangatanga---a concourse
Ngangare---contend, strife
Ngangaretanga---dispute
Ngarahu---the black soot of kauri resin, used in tattooing
Ngarara---a creeping thing, a lizard
Ngaro---a fly
Ngaro---hide, secret, loose, invisible
Ngaronga --- secret, mystery, absence, absent
Ngarautaua---name of a shellfish
Ngaru---the wave, surf, covered with waves, an uneven surface, uneven, rough
Nga rue---roots of fern
Ngaruru---an aching pain, aching
Ngata---name of an insect
Ngatahi---together; hui ngatahi ---to meet
Ngatahitia---together
Ngatatatanga---a gulf, a wrinkle
Nga taro---roots of taro
Nga uia---tail feathers of the bird called uia, used as an ornament
Ngawari---soft, light, easy
Ngenge---weary, to be weary, tired
Ngengeti---an insect
Ngere---lazy
Ngeri---name of a garment
Ngeri komeke---id.
Ngeru---a cat
Ngiru ngiru---name of a bird
Ngokingoki---to creep
Ngoi---an old woman, general name for fish
Ngoikore---weak, faint
Ngoikoretanga---weakness, infirmity
Ngoiro---name of a fish
Ngohe---loosen
Ngongi---pure water
Ngongoro---snoring noise, snoring
Ngoto---deep, pierce
Ngu---squids, the tattoo upon the nose
Ngungu---walking in a sitting posture, stooping low
Ngutu---lips, brim of a vessel; te hunga ngutu kau---people talking with their lips only, deceitful, hypocritical people
Ngutu riwa---hare-lips
P.
Pa---a fortified village, affectionate term for father
Paiauku---gaudiness, finery
Pai---good, kind, well; e pai ano---please, good
Paihau---beard
Paihia---name of a place
Painga---goodness,benevolencc, beauty
Paipai---finery, good, fine, beautiful, well-made
Pairau---proper name
Pai roa, (i. e. hau)---a south wind, middle island
Pairoke---name of a place
Paitia --- good ; e koreroretia paitia---of good report
Paopaongia---making slight of anything
Paopao---make slight, easy of anything
Paoa or Paowa---gall, smoke
Paheke---stinginess
Pau---consumption, expenditure
Pau---consume
Pauka---a garment so called
Pahu---a canoe-shaped piece of wood which was beaten like a drum; a trumpet, a drum
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THE DICTIONARY.
Pahia---bruise
Pahi---a ship
Pahunu---terror
Pahuretia---to bold, to pull, to keep fast
Pakaka---pale
Pakaukau---a kite
Paka---a garment, anything dried in the sun
Paka kina kina---smite
Pakau---wing of a bird, a kite
Pakaru---breaking, bursting
Pakarutanga--- breaking out, issuing
Pakarunga---bursting
Pakarukarunga---ruins
Pakanae---name of a place
Pakati---waistcoat (Angl.)
Pake pake no te ra---the ornament placed at the edge of the sail of a canoe
Pakea---a stranger, foreigner
Pakepakewai---a garment
Pakeke---hard, difficult, proper name, hardly, bad, cruel
Pakeko ---a barren woman
Paki --- calm, quiet, as the weather
Pakipaki ---very quiet
Pakia---covering for a man's back, boxing with the open hand
Pakiaka---root of a tree, any root
Pakihi ---a garment for a man, breeches
Pakirikiri---a fish so called
Pakirikiri ---the lower incisors of a man
Pakihi kura---red land, where fern-root has been collected
Pakira---a bald head
Pakitara---the corner, a wall
Pakoa te tai---low water
Pakoi koi---a fish so called
Pakoko---barren, fruitless
Pakurakura---a fish so called
Pana---a fillip, filliping
Pane---tie up, catch
Pani---an orphan
Pani---besmearing, painting
Panikau---name of a place
Panga---a casting, or removing from one place to another
Pangia----taste
Pangiatia---taste it
Pangore---name of a fresh-water eel
Panguru---a mountain so called
Papa---a thin board, a plank, a plain, a flat, a table, the buttocks
Papa---exploding, bursting
Papaka---a crab
Papaki---smite; i nga ringaringa---clap the hands, palm of the hands
Papaki---new
Papaku---low, little
Papare---cry
Paparinga---cheek
Papani---a fish so called
Papapa---a cup for victuals
Papanga---half of anything
Papa pere---a quiver
Papata---a cockroach
Papatu---strike
Papataura---a sponge
Papaware---the floor of a house
Para---a fish so called
Paraharaha---an iron hoop
Paraheka---semen
Paraheka wahi awa---a blue paint
Parahi---a game so called
Paraparau---command
Pararohi---juice of fern-root
Pararau---wings
Paratahi---the upper side boards at the head of a canoe
Parawa---a sperm whale; also its jaw-bone ; the two upper incisors of a man
Parawea---noon
Parangi---a company of persons sitting in a circle
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Parare---cry
Parepare---the fringe of a garment
Pare---a ribbon for the head, the topknot of a bird
Parea---turning, turning round
Pare---the resin of the kauri pine
Paremo---sinking
Parera---a duck
Parewarewa---a fish so called
Parewakataka---the knot of a ribbon, worn at the side of the head
Pari---a steep rock, a precipitous shore
Pari---rise, flow ; for instance, the. tide
Parirau, wing of a bird
Paro---the hollow part of the hand
Paro---a small basket, used as a plate
Paroa---name of a place
Parore---a fish so called
Paru---mud, dirt, dirty
Pata---a garment
Patari kaihu---one of the Magellan clouds
Patahi---a garment for the waist of females
Patanga---a cause
Patata---surrounding
Pate---the wood which is used by the natives to produce fire by friction
Patete---a garment so called
Pati---a lie
Pati pati---to tell lies
Patiki---a fish so called, also a game
Patinga o te tai---flowing of the tide
Patiti---a tomahawk, a small axe
Patota---name of a place
Patuka---a storehouse
Patu---a wall
Patu---a war-club, beating, killing ; patua---smitten
Patukia---knock, a knock
Patunga---a slaughter; patunga tapu---slaughter for sacrifice
Patuone---slaughter upon the sand, name of a person
Patu patu---a war-club
Pawara---wild
Pawa---a shell-fish (Haliotis)
Pawera---fear, a fever
Pawi---a club for beating fern-root
Pawi---beating
Pe---perhaps
Pea---perhaps, I believe so; Pea phoki --- perhaps it is so
Pea---the lobe of the ear
Pe---push, thrust, drive, throw
Pehia---push on
Pehea---how? what?
Pehi---a ship, a tossing ball
Pehoki---a dog-fish
Peka peka---a bat, a game so called
Peke---remove
Pena---like that
Penei---like this, thus, in that manner
Pepe---a butterfly, trembling
Pera---like that, the same
Pere---remove, removal
Pere---shaft, bow, arrow
Pere kura---a war station
Pero---a dog
Pero pero---ditto
Pi---close, near
Piu---cast; for instance, a fishhook
Piu----grass so called
Piha piha rau---a sort of freshwater eel
Pihe---the funeral ode, singing the pihe---the womb
Pihi---spring up, grow
Pihoi hoi---name of a little bird
Pikau---a load, burden, a garment
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THE DICTIONARY.
Pikaua---carry a load upon the back
Piki---adhering, sticking very close, adhesion, adhesive, clinging, climbing, ascend
Piki-arero---the ligament of the tongue, a climbing plant
Pikinga---adhesion, climbing
Piki rangi---a climbing to heaven
Piki kiki---troublesome
Piko---a curve, a bend, to bend, crooked, a humpbacked person
Piko piko---ditto
Pikonga---a curve, or bending of a line, road
Pine---scowling
Pipi---cry of a bird, cry of a child
Pipi---cockle
Pipi---tremble
Pipipi----a turkey
Pirangi---desire, smile, lust
Pirau---stench, stinking, spoilt, rotten
Pirautia---rotting
Piri---cleaving, sticking, closeness, crowding
Piri kau---a sheep from the closeness of its wool
Piringa---closeness
Pirinoa---name of a place
Piro---stench
Pirounga---corruption, stench
Pirongia---name of a mountain
Piwai---refuse of sweet potatoes
Pingau---a garment
Pingore---tough
Pitao---the carved figure at the head of a canoe, a canoe so called, the tattooed face of a woman
Pitao waka---a carved canoe
Pito---the end, the navel
Pitone---end of the beach, name of a place
Pitorehu---the navel-string
Po---night, darkness, season, journey
Po mate kai---season of famine
Poaka---pig, swine
Poeoi---a tuft of feathers worn as an ornament in the ear
Poi ---a ball for play, to play ball
Poi poi, a ball, light
Pou---a post, pillar
Pouroto---the inside post of a house
Pouaka---a box
Poupou---stakes
Pou pou---boils on (he skin
Pounamu---green jade
Pouri---dark, dull, sorry, sorrowful, darkness
Pouritanga---darkness
Poutou---cut off, chop
Poutoutoki---cut up
Poutoa noa---beheaded
Pouturi---deafnessPohewahewa---doubt
Pohewa---id.
Pohehe---hinder, prevent, confuse
Pohe---dead
Poheua---doubt
Pohutukaua --- a timber - tree (Metrosideros tomentosa)
Poka---besmeared
Pokaikaha---doubt
Pokaia---disembowel
Poka---alter, cover
Poka---pit, hole, excremental dust
Pokapu---name of a place
Poka noa---idle
Poke---unclean
Pokai---fold, roll up
Pokerioa---wilful
Pokarakara---globular
Pokatupapaku---grave
Poke poke---to make
Poki---covered
Pokihiwi---shoulder
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Pokoura---name of a place
Pokanga---cleft of a rock, a hole
Pomare---night-cough, a name
Ponapona---joints
Ponaru---widow
Ponarutanga---widowhood
Pona---a knot, making a knot
Ponaanga---a knot
Pona pona---wrist, ankle joint, knotty
Pona kaua kaua---a game so called
Pono---truth, true, truly, faithful, to speak the truth
Pononga---servant, assistant
Ponongatanga --- servitude, assistance
Ponga---a pithy wood so called
Pongere---smoking
Ponga ponga---nostrils
Popo---cut into pieces
Popoa---sacred victuals
Popoto---very short
Porae---a fish so called
Porae nui---name of a place
Porearea---bother, confound
Porohuritia --- to turn upside down
Porahurahura---trouble
Pororarui---confounded, doubted
Poranga---a purple sweet potato
Porangi---hasty, to be in a hurry
Poropora---tobacco
Poraporo---berry, fruit
Porori---hip-bone
Poroporo aki---taking leave
Porotaka---annular
Porotaitaka---closed all around, annular
Porotutu kitanga --- borders, limits
Potatutatu---with haste
Potai---a hat, cap, pot-lid
Potaitupui---name of a place
Potiki---the youngest child, brother or sister
Poti poti---an insect so called
Poto---short
Potopoto---short
Pu---a cylinder, musket, flute, a pregnant woman; fire a musket
Pu---blow
Pua---a sowthistle
Pua iti---the small sowthistle
Pua o te rakau---flower of a tree
Puao---daybreak
Puaotanga---dawning of the day
Puare---open
Puaki---make known
Puehu---dust, uproar
Puehuehu---mealy; used of the fernroot
Puehoki---blunt
Pui---the ornamented sternpost of a canoe
Pui korokoro---name of a fish
Pui---a hot spring
Puhehe---erring
Puhi---to shoot
Puhi---name of a freshwater eel
Puka---spade, cabbage
Pukaha---a garment so called
Pukanana---staring
Pukapu---a place so called
Pukapuka---book, paper, a tree so called, the lungs
Puke---hill
Puke puke---hill, low hill
Puke hau papa---Snowy Mountain, Mount Egmont
Pukeko---a bird (Porphyrio)
Pukepoto---a mineral serving as a blue paint
Puketaua---name of a hill
Pukorotuna---a wickerwork basket for catching eels
Puku---stomach, bulk of a ship ; noho puku---a fasting stomach; moe puku, fornication
Puku---secret, concealed, se-cretly
Pukutia---do a thing secretly
Pukuwaewae---the ankle
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THE DICTIONARY.
Pumau---close, confined for want of air, confident; pumau ana taku wakaro---I am confident
Pune---close, tight; ware pune, sleeping house
Puna---spring, root
Puna wai---a spring, a well; puna awa---the source of a river
Pupu---a periwinkle, abundance
Pupuhi---blowing
Pupuru---a cartridge, hold
Pupuri---close,near,receive,hold
Puputu---close
Pura pura---seeds, fruits
Pura---film, mote
Puranga---heap, to heap
Puranga paru---dunghill
Puri---seize, help
Puripu---canon
Purehurehu---moth
Puremu---lascivious, adulterous, adulterer, whoring
Purepure---spotted
Purewa---a muscle
Puritia---to hold, keep back
Puroku---a goat
Purorohu---a current in the sea
Puna rua---a pulling match
Puru---a cork or stopper
Puru---holding fast
Purui---a flea
Puta ake---come up, make its appearance
Puta---pass through, leave, descend, appear, show ; puta mai-koutou --- show yourselves
Puta---an opprobrious term for a woman
Putake---root
Putahi---any persons or things derived from the same source or family
Putanga---egress---descend, appearance
Putangitangi---Paradise duck
Putanga matamua---the firstborn
Pute---bag
Putoto---a bird
Puwa---thistle
Puwenua---the poles on each side of the sail
Puwerewere---a spider
Punga---an anchor, an odd one
Pungaribu---ashes
Punga wera wera---brimstone
Punga wera---pumice-stone
Punga he hawato --- pumice-stone
Pungorungoru---a sponge
R.
Ra---a particle used in the present tense of verbs, which follows the verb, and is generally used if we want to express anything with force ; for instance, haere mai ra--- come here!
Ra---sun, day, time
Ra---health, strength
Ra---sail of a ship or a canoe
Ra---rise up
Ra---i tenei ra, i tenei ra---continually
Ra ia---that person, yet
Rae---point (of a coast), forehead
Raena---prominent, in sight, within view
Rai rai---thin
Rao rao---a plain
Rau---young tops of a tree, leaves, a grass so called
Rau---hundred
Raua---they (they two only)
Rauhanga---wiles, temptation
Raukaua---name of a tribe
Raumati---summer
Rauparaha---name of a chief Raupaua---a net for small fish
Raupo---bulrushes (typha)
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Raurau---a plain, a village situated on a plain
Raha---show
Rahi---length, great, long, tall, enlarge, forehead
Rahu rahu---fern
Rahui---prohibition, prohibit
Raka---firmament , he wetu raka---the starry firmament
Rakapika--- shrub (Metrosideros florida)
Rakau---tree, general name for wood
Rakautia---becoming a tree
Rakau mo te ihu---a bow sprit
Raku---a scratch
Raku raku---a small hoe, or anything to scrape with, scrape, scratch
Rama---candle, light
Rama rama---name of a tree (Myrtus bullata)
Ranei---an adverb added to interrogative particles , for instance, Kowai raneii? who?
Raneatanga---riches
Ranu---mixture , ranu---gravy
Ranga---make, fabricate
Rangai---a crowd, a shoal
Rangaunu---name of a place
Rangatira---a gentleman
Rangatiratanga---chieftainship
Rangi---heavens, sky, light
Rangi---to be accustomed to
Rangiatea---clear atmosphere
Rangimarie---meek, still
Rangiuru---the upper regions of the atmosphere, heavens
Rangitetahi---a name
Rangitoto---red sky, name of a place
Rangitunoa---a day without employment
Rangona---spoken, heard, made known
Rapa---the upright board at the stern of a canoe, name of a place
Rapa rapa---sole of the foot, foot, shoe
Rape---a sort of gourd
Rapu---search
Rapua---to search
Rara---rib
Raputia---seeking
Rarau---a plant so called
Ra raku---time of scratching
Raramata---name of a place
Rarita---flock, tame
Raratuna---a game so called
Rare---a sort of grass
Raro---below, under
Raru raru---troubled, uneasy
Rata---name of a timber tree (Metrosideros robusta)
Ratou---they (all together)
Rawa---used to form the superlative degree of adj
Rawa---a remainder
Rawa---to the utmost extent, to the last
Rawatia---very high
Rawanga---a remainder
Raw eke---use, treat badly
Rawengi---to like
Rawiri---a shrub (Leptospermum ericoides)
Rea rea---depart
Rei---pit of the stomach
Reinga---the other world, its entrance at Cape Maria van Diemen, hell (of the missionaries)
Reira---there, therefore, thence
Reo---voice, speech, dialect
Reo reo---a shell-fish so called
Reua---oppressive heat
Rehu---chip or beat off, for instance, a flint
Rehu---a flute, pipe
Rehurehu---depart, descend, set
Reka---joking, sweet, agreeable to mmd or taste, agree, sweet
Rekatanga---joy
Rekereke---the heel
Reko---a bird so called
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THE DICTIONARY.
Repo---a swamp
Reringa---flight
Rere---fly
Remo---fringe of a garment,hem, holders
Rere---behold 'look'
Rewa---eyelid
Renga---secretion of the eve
Rewa rewa---a tree (Knightia excelsa)
Rengarenga---a liliaceous plant
Rereahi ahi---evening star
Rere---break forth
Rete---a snare, to snare
Riu---the internal part of a person, canoe
Rihi---dish, plate
Rika---thin, small
Rike rike---heel
Rima---five
Rimu---herbs, seaweed
Rimu---a pine tree (Dacrydium cupressinum)
Rino---iron, a bolt
Ringatahi---handful
Ringa ringa---the hand
Ringihia---to empty
Ringi---fill, pour, pass ringitia
Rire---depth
Riri---anger, angry, ririri--- angry
Riringa---resentment, wrath, ire
Ripeka---cross
Ripekatia---crucify
Ripiro---name of a place
Riri---native baptism
Riro---go out, away
Riro ke---depart
Riro riro---name of a bird
Rite---fulfil
Rite---alike , rite tonu---exactly alike, according
Ritenga---creed, custom, manner , Ki te ritenga---according
Rito---bud of a tree
Riwai---potato
Ro---matter
Roa---long
Roatanga---durance
Roanga---lengthening, length
Roakatanga---riches
Roimata---tears
Rohe---borders
Rohi---fern-root
Roke---hard dung
Rokohi --- find , rokohina --- found
Roke roke---a kind of potato
Roma---the wake of a ship, a wave
Romi---squeeze
Roromi---infanticide
Rona---the lady in the moon
Rope---throw away
Rore kiore---a game so called
Rori---scrape, gather
Rorihi---turn over
Roro---the brain
Roroa---very long
Roroi---a sort of pudding
Roto---within
Rotu---a lake
Rotu rua---name of a lake
Rotu mahana---id
Rotu makariri---id
Rongi---swallow
Rongo---hear, feel, tidings, obey
Rongo---an informer
Rongo---peace
Rongongo---hear
Rongotia---hearken
Rongoa---medical, medicine, he tangata ronga---a medical man
Rongoatia---to heal
Ru---a shrug to shrug
Rua---two
Rua --- a hole for potatoes, a grave
Ruatera---an Iguana, a pit, i q , tuatera
Rua rua---a few
Ruake---sickness, vomiting
Ruanga---place for two
Ruatahi---twice one
Ruemata---tear
Ruinga---outpouring
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Rui rui---scatter, shake
Rui---sow, shake off
Rurea---beset, in order to plunder
Ruruhi---an old woman
Ruri ruri---toss about, pitch
Ruru ruru---an owl
Ruru---close, hidden
Rutu---strike, beat
Ruha---weary, tired
Ruku ruku---a basket loosely tied up
Ruku---dive, diving
Rumakina---bend
Runga---above, upon
Runanga---assembly, council
Rupe---blow the nose
Ruperupea---shake off
T.
Ta---an instrument to mark the skin with, a file, mark, knit a fishing-net
Ta---gen. poss.; for instance, the fruit of the tree---ta te rakau hua
Taea---prosper
Taemai---name of a place
Tae mai---approach, come
Taenga atu---appearance
Taere---a snare for catching sea-fowls
Tai---sea ; wai tai, sea-water, a woman bearing children, an affectionate term for mother
Taia---engrave, impress
Taiapohia---carry
Taieke---spring-tide
Taiepa---enclosure, wall, fence
Taiepatia---hedged, enclosed
Taioa---by and by
Taihou---stranger
Taimaha---heavy, load heavy
Taimahatia---heavenly, laden
Taipa--- name of a river
Taipari---a flowing tide, flood
Taipouri---the dark part or hold of a ship
Taitima---an ebbing tide, ebb
Tairiki riki---neap tide Tairaki---a gentle current of the sea
Tai tai---salt
Taitamariki---young man ; wahine taitamariki---the first wife
Tairua---the sea-sands
Taiwaka pakoa---a very low tide
Taiwaru---a fresh-water trout
Tao---a long spear, stick, stave
Taokete---a brother or sister in law, a relation
Taonga --- treasure, property, goods, rich; tangata taonga, rich people
Taora po eoi --- spear dressed with parrots' feathers
Tau---one revolution of the earth round the sun, a year; a game, revolving, meeting
Tau iho---lay down upon
Tau---number ; pass, tauia
Tau---thy
Tau---stranger
Taua---war, meeting, battle, excursion ; nga rongo taua--- warriors; he tangata taua---a warrior
Taua---we
Taua---that
Taua iti---a skirmish
Taua tapu---a war with certain ceremonies
Taua toto---a war excursion for the exercise of the lex talionis
Taua rekareka---a slave
Tauataua---name of a fish
Tauhiuhia---sprinkle
Tauhou---stranger
Tauinu---name of a shrub
Tauiwi---a strange tribe, tribes
Tauhoe---a stranger
Taumanu---the beams of a canoe
Taumarumaru ---shadow, to shadow
Taumarumarutanga---shadow
Taumaro---a sweetheart
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THE DICTIONARY.
Taumatia---espoused
Tauna or tahuna---a sandbank, shallow water, roast by the fire
Taunutanga.---reviling, slander
Taunutia---to mock
Taupiri---name of a place
Taupoki---cover
Taupuhipuhi---stand up, confide
Taura---cord, rope
Tau rau---a century
Tauranga---a landing place, a wharf, name of a place and person
Tauri---a turn, turn over
Taurite---ready
Tautari---a tomb surrounded with wickerwork, name of a mountain
Tautiti---guide
Tautoru---three stars in the belt of Orion
Tauwaru---sort of fishing-net
Taha taha---the sides of anything
Taha---id.
Taha---calabash
Taha taha ara---the wayside
Taha taha wai---the waterside
Taha wai---id.
Tahae---steal, pilfer, covet, a thief
Tahaetia---stolen
Tahaetanga---theft, pilfer
Tahaku---the sides and ends united as a parallelogram
Tahi---one, together, or as one ; for instance, E wakaro tahi---be of the same mind
Tahihuru---a dog's-skin
Tahi tatou---we all together
Tohoho---sob, pant
Tahuri mai---turn to me
Tahuri---turn, convert
Tahu---husband
Tahu---kindle
Tahuhu---the joist of a floor
Tahuna. part. pass, of tahu--- lighted, burned
Tahunga---sandbanks, flats
Taka---fall, change; for instance, the wind; to fall, change
Takanga---fall
Takaro---play, playful
Takaia---to wrap up
Taka kau---lonely
Takapau---a sleeping-mat, a mat
Takapu---the calf of the leg
Takawaru---name of a fish
Takawera---name of a star
Take---bottom
Takeke---name of a fish
Takere---the bottom or keel of a ship
Takiwa---the firmament
Takiwa---a bay having no river
Takitahi---by single numbers, each of them individually
Taki rua---by pairs
Takimahatia---abundantly
Takoto kau---empty
Takoto---lie down, place to lay anything
Takototanga---place, treasure, a tomb
Taku---my
Tako taniwa---a shark's tooth, worn as ornament in the ear
Tama---child, son, embryo
Tama iti---son, child (male)
Tamahine---daughter
Tamahine tanga---youth
Tamara---a full-grown man or woman
Tamariki---son, children
Tamariki tanga---youth
Tami tami---craw or stomach of a bird or person
Tamuri---the snapper fish
Tana---his
Tane---husband, male
Tanekaha---a pine-tree (Phyllocladus trichomanoides)
Tanihi---blind of one eye
Taniwa---name of a sea-monster
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Tanu---bury
Tanumia---bury
Tanga---syllable joined to verbs in converting them into abstract substantives
Tangata---men
Tangata ke---foreigner, stranger
Tangata muru---a robber
Tangi---cry, lamentation, grief, noise of man and animals and inanimate objects, report of a gun, cry
Tangiaue---howl, cry violently
Tangihanga---crying, weeping
Tango---take, unite; tangohia mai---receive
Tango katoa---altogether
Tangohanga---receiving, handling
Tango tango---handle
Tapa---thin cloth, made of the bark or leaves of trees
Tapapa---a species of potatoes
Tapeka---name of a place
Tapiri---help; tapiritia, helped
Tapoko---enter
Tapokopoko---a bog
Tapu---sacred, inviolable, forbidden
Taputia---made holy, made sacred
Taputanga---the act of making holy or sacred
Tara tara---palings, a rock with uneven stones, rough, a beard; kakahu tara tara---a coarse mat
Tara---a gannet, a war instrument
Taraiti---a tree
Tarakihi---locusts, name of a fish
Tarakina kina---name of a mat
Tarapo---a species of potatoes
Tarawa---name of a place, a joist or spar which extends from post to post
Taraware---storehouse for ku-meras
Tarawera---shell-fish, name of a lake Tarawahi---the other side of the water
Tare---groan
Tarenga---groaning
Tareureu---a game so called
Tarie---wait
Taringa---ear
Taringa pihi---a horn
Taro taro --- a vegetable food, bread
Taro---id.
Tarona --- suicide by hanging, hanged
Taru taru---grass, weeds
Tata---near, draw nigh
Tatau---door, gate, dispute
Tatau---account, count
Tatahi---apart
Tatahi---kill by bruising
Tatahi---sea-beach
Tataramoa---thorns, blackberry
Tatari---delay, wait
Tatari mai---wait
Tatata---mat so called
Tatera---a trumpet
Tatoka---a spear
Tatou---we all
Tawae wae---foot-mark
Tawai---name of a fish
Tawai --- revile, slander, reproach
Tawainga---reproach
Tawahi---the other side of the water, beyond
Tawaka---name of a fish
Tawara---a sort of water-cress
Tawaru---name of a fish
Taweta---hang up
Tawi---succession of wave upon wave
Tawiri---name of a shellfish, beckon or hail
Tawiti---far, distant
Tawiti tawiti---very far
Tawito---grow old, old, original; pass. tawitotia
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THE DICTIONARY.
Te---the definite article
Te---empty, void, to empty, to clear, disperse
Teina---brothers, younger brothers or sisters
Teina ke---brother or sister-in-law, cousin
Tehoa---which, where?
Tehia, id.
Teka---falsehood, lie, false, lying, to lie
Tena---that, in sight
Tena---go on, proceed
Tena ra---be cheerful
Tena ra kokoe---how do you do? good morning, good day
Tenei---this
Tengi---the odd one of the three
Tenihanga---deceitful
Tera---that, at a distance
Tere --- swift, quick, moving swift
Terepua---name of a star
Tere tere---a trading voyage, or a sailing excursion from one place to the other
Tero---the straight gut
Tetahi---one ; tetahi tetahi --- one, another or some
Teteatanga---gnashing ; te te-teatanga o nga ihu --- the smashing of the teeth
Tetere---trumpet, shell, a trembling, tremble, swell
Tete---a carved figure at the head of a canoe
Ti---the sweet loot of the dragon-tree
Tiia, i. g., tihewa
Tiaia---dip, bend
Tiahi---a lascivious person, lascivious
Tiaho---light
Tiaki---rule, govern, keep
Tiu---pierce
Tiharu---a baling vessel for a ship, a pump, to bale or pump
Tiho kakoka---a shed
Tihewa---sneezing, to sneeze
Tika---to lead
Tika---just, straight, even
Tika tika, id.
Tikanga---justness, evenness, meaning
Tikaokao---cock, poultry
Tike tike---high, height
Tiki---part of the tattoo of women
Tiki tiki---to see (Angl.-Zel.)
Tikina---fetch, bring close
Titoki---a tree, of the. seeds of winch a fine oil is made (Aledryon excelsum)
Tiko---easing nature
Tikonga---the act of
Timata---begin, commence
Timatanga---beginning
Timo timo---bit after bit
Timore---bare
Timu---ebbing of the tide
Tinana---trunk of the body or of a tree
Tinei---quench, bruise to death
Tini---many, indefinite number
Tini tini, id.
Tiniha---mock, hiss
Tinihanga---mocking,deceiving, deceit
Tino---plenty
Tino---diligently, the first, the chief
Tinopairawatanga---better instructed
Tierawaki---a bird
Tira---back-fin of a fish; a party falling in with another on the road
Tiratu---the halyards
Tiro tiro---look after, guardian
Tiro, id.
Titaha---an axe
Titari---strew about
Titi---rushes
Titi---the mutton-bird
Titi waka---a plain canoe
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Titiro---look
Titiro ra!---exclamation, lo!
Tito---invent; he kai tito---inventor
Tito---fast
Titohi---desert, waste; titohia, wasted
Titore---a crack, fissure, chasm, cracked, or splitting, to split
Titorenga --- act, or time of splitting
Tiwakawaka---a bird
Tiwai---a canoe without gunwales, bottom of a canoe
Tiwana----the lines of tattooing extending from the eyes to the temples
To---thy
To---life, motion, give life, move, be pregnant
Toa---a hero, courageous,valiant
Toatoa, i. g. Tanekaha
Toanga---the act of pulling, forcing
Toangatanga---inheritance
Toe---a remainder, an importunate unreasonable person), importunate, importune, remain, mistake, tempt
Toenetanga o te ra---setting of the sun
Toenga---the rest, importunity, fragments
Toe toe---a long rushy grass --- waver
Toia---immerse, dip, baptize
Toi toi --- name of a bird
Toinga---immersion, baptism
Tou tou ---dip
Tou ---thy
Touarawa---the male of animals
Toupua---the dress of a dead person
Tohatoha noa---break forth
Tohe teau---strife, tempt
Tohenga---purpose, end
Tohia---dragged or forced along, pull, row
Tohi---drag, dip, force along
Tohinga---time or act of baptizing
Tohora ---sperm whale, whales
Tohu---peace
Tohu tohu---merciful, to rub
Tohu---a sign, a mark, an idol, signal
Tohutohungia---sign
Tohunga---a wise, skilful man; a priest; he wahine tohunga ---a priestess
Tohungia---mercy
Toka---a rock
Tokai---coitus, the crossbeams of a canoe
Toke---the uvula, name of a fish, worms
Toki---an axe
Tokirau---name of a place
Tokohia---how many
Toko---how many
Tokomaha---many
Tokoruatanga---twice, twain
Tokotahi---one
Tokorima---live
Toko toko---stick, stave
Tokorua---two
Tokotoru---three
Tokowitu---seven
Toku---my
Tokowaru---eight
Tokoonu---six
Toma atu---to go out
Toma mai---to enter
Tomo---enter
Tomokanga---entrance
Tona---a wart
Tona---his
Tonoa---command, order
Tononga---commandment
Tonga---south wind, south
Tongariro---a mountain
Tonga mimi---the bladder
Tonga nui---a game
Tonu---always, exactly, only
Tonutanga---eternal, often
Tonutia---continually
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THE DICTIONARY.
Topa---baking
Topito---end
Tore---a passage
Torea---a bird called oyster-catcher
Torengi---descend, disappear
Torenga---sunset
Torengitanga o te ra---sunset
Toro---spread
Toroa---an albatross
Toroai---a war instrument
Toronga---spreading of the fire
Toropeku mai ana---to come privately
Torotoro---the ant
Toru te kau---thirty
Toru toru---three, few in number
Totara--- a pine (Podocarpus totara)
Tote---salt, to salt
Totitoki---to halt
Totohu---sinking
Toto---blood, menstruation
Totohe---deceit, oppose
Totoke---stick
Toto rau rau---dew
Totokea---a shell-fish
Towai---a timber-tree
Tu---stand, stand up, brought into a position, beat, carve ; tuhi---paint, write
Tua --- distributable, transmissible, a tradition
Tuangi---tradition, distribution
Tuai---distribute
Tuauriuri---multitudes
Tuakana---brother, elder brother
Tuaki---cut down ; tuakina---prostrated, hewn down
Tuakana ke---elder brother-in-law, or cousin
Tuanui---roof
Tuara---back
Tuatahi---the first
Tuatara---a guana
Tuatea---waves
Tuatu---a shark
Tuawati---a flight
Tuawairoa---steam issuing out of the nostrils of a baked head
Tui tui---to sew
Tui---a bird
Tuiau---a flea
Tuohu---bow, bend
Tuhea---desert, deserted ; tuheatia----deserted
Tuhi tuhi---write, paint
Tuhitanga---a writing
Tuhonohonoa---tie, frame together
Tuhonoa---join
Tuhua---Mayor's Island
Tu kau---to be naked, or stand alone
Tuketuke---elbow
Tukemata---the eyebrow
Tuki --- piece of wood at the head of a canoe
Tukino---oppress
Tukinotia---oppressed
Tukituki---beat, slay, destruction ; tukitukia---stricken
Tuku---the pit of the stomach
Tuku---give way, let go, deliver, descend
Tuku peru---black whale
Tukuwai---diving in the water
Tuma---threatening, threaten
Tumau---settled
Tuma aki---the crown of a man's head, the upper part of the trunk of a tree
Tumou---a slave
Tumu tumu---stump of a tree
Tuna---eel
Tunumanga---burial
Tunewa noa---slumber
Tunu---bury
Tunumia---buried
Tunga---wounds ; niho tunga---decayed tooth
Tunga---place where a person stands
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Tungane---a brother
Tunguru---a turnip
Tupakihi---a shrub
Tupapaku---a corpse
Tupato --- a jealous, prudent, suspicious man, suspecting
Tupe --- a snare for birds
Tupopo --- a porpoise
Tupu---bud
Tuputupu---the mangrove
Tupuna nui ---ancestor, patriarch
Tupuna tane --- grandfather
Tupuna wahine ---grandmother
Tupunga --- grow, the ground where anything grows, ancestry
Turaki --- bring down
Tura kina --- brought
Tura-wera ---a hard blow
Turanga --- a stand, a place, spot, where to place something on it, a candlestick ; turanga waewae--- a footstool
Ture ---law, commandment
Tun --- knee .
Turi --- deaf, confused, to be silent
Turiteri---noise
Turi ngongengonge --- lame, maimed
Turoro --- sick, suffering ; te mate turoro---epidemic
Turorotanga---sickness,suffering
Turutu ---reed for making baskets
Tutahi---dung, excrements
Tutaka moana---a place
Tutaki---meet together
Tutakiana---meet, appear
Tutakinga---a meeting
Tutata---stand by, near
Tutata---coast; he kainga tutata---a coast place
Tu tonu---stand still
Tutei---guard, watchman
Tutu---a wine made from the berries of the tupakihi
Tutu---perverse ; mahi tutu---violences, making noise
Tutukaka---name of a bay
Tutuki---dash, knock, stumble
Tutukinga---stumbling
Tuturu---kneeling
Tuwahine---sister
Tuwaina---spit
Tuwatia---spit
Tuwera---open
Tuwiri---afraid
W.
Wa---support, carry, also the number four
Wae wae---feet, leg ; nga mea waewa wa---four-footed animals
Waea---mother
Waenga---the middle of anything, centre of a canoe, midships, also a field
Waenga kumera---a field of sweet potatoes,
Waenganui---middle
Waenganui po---midnight
Waeroa---long legs, muskito
Wai---water ; wai maori---fresh water
Wai tai---salt-water; who? a fish, so called
Waianuanua --- waters of the rainbow, waterfall
Waiata---song, sing
Waiatatia---to sing
Waienga---a farm, a place cleared for a farm
Waiu---water of the breast, i. e. milk
Waiho---presently
Waihoa taria---wait a little
Waiheaua---a porpoise
Waiho---make, form
Waihepu---a river, so called
Waihu---leave, desert
Waikauau---water in a running state, a stream
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THE DICTIONARY.
Waikato---a river, a name
Waikura---rust
Waikare---clear reflecting water
Waikeri---a rivulet or narrow drain, name of a place, a ditch, a swamp
Waimonga monga---marrow
Wainga---time or act of dispute
Waipa---a liver
Waipapa---a place
Waipoka---a well
Waiporotaka---a circular pool
Waipu---a pond
Waipuke---a flood of water descending a hill
Wairenga---a place cleared for a farm
Wairere---waterfall
Wairu---hair used in a mat as ornament
Wairu---a file
Wairua---spirit, the immortal part of man
Waitaongatanga---inheritance
Waitangi---noisy water, name of a place
Waitemata---a place so called
Waitohungia---remark, note
Waiwatawata---a place so called
Waiwawariki---a place so called
Wao---nail, a hole
Waha---bear, carry
Waha---mouth
Wahanga---burden
Wahangu---dumb
Wahi kai---pasture
Wahi---firewood, place, part of the body, a spot
Wahi iti---a moment
Wahi tapu---burying-place, sacred ground
Wahina---a virgin
Wahinatanga---maidenhood,virginity
Wahine---wife, woman, female
Wahine moepuke---concubine
Waho---out, outside
Waka---a canoe
Waka---used to form the causative verbs
Wakaako---teach
Wakaahua---form, mould, feign
Wakaatu---canoe for carrying the dead
Wakaara---rise, bring forth
Wakaarangi---awake
Wakaae---consent
Wakaaenga---knowledge, assurance
Wakaaro --- think, thinking, thoughtful, esteem
Wakaaroaroa---consider
Wakaati---clean, prepare
Wakaangahia---lift up
Wakaeke---rope
Wakaereere---very great
Wakaikeike---exalt
Wakaiwa---garment for women, a name
Wakairo---carve
Wakaitia---diminish, debase, abuse
Wakaititanga---humility
Wakaahuru---cherish
Wakaoioi---shake
Wakaorangia---deliverance ; to heal
Wakaora---heal, save
Wakaokioki---give, make, rest
Wakaoranga---health, deliverance
Wakau---grounded
Wakau---serve, love
Wakaua---cause to rain
Wakaunga---bars
Wakauaua---making pain
Wakautu---pay
Wakautunga---taxing
Wakahauhautanga---exhortation
Wakahangarere katia---to make light of anything
Wakahereheretia---in bondage
Wakahere---offering
Wakahau---command; kai wa kahau---commander
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Wakaharahara---exceedingly great, deep
Wakahaurangi---to enervrate
Wakahawa---a decoy or stratagem
Wakahawea --- despise, blaspheme; pass wakahaweatia
Wakahemokanga---fainting
Wakahe---deceive, offend, offending
Wakahemo---devour
Wakahengia---offended, despised
Wakahoki---buy, redeem
Wakahoki mai---redeem, bring back, buy
Wakahoro---throw down, o\er-throw
Wakahohoro---hurry
Wakahoatia---partake, to befriend
Wakahua---mention, name
Wakahuihui---gather
Wakaka---burn, lighten, a fire
Wakakai---an ear-drop
Wakakake---make high, elevate , he hunga wakakake--- a proud man
Wakakahehaere---lift up
Wakakakahu---clothe, dress
Wakakakahuria---clothed
Wakakakahuranga---clothing
Wakakapi---fill, wakakapinga ---fulness
Wakakahore---annihilate, destroy; pass, wakakahoretia
Wakakino---corrupt, despise
Wakakororia---speak high, glorify ; pass wakakororiatia
Wakakinongia---corrupted
Wakakahangia---be strong, strengthened
Wakakite----show
Wakakitenga---foresight, prophesy
Wakakiia---fill
Wakakorea---loose
Wakakoingo---to be sorry
Wakakorikori -- move
Wakakuware --- become vain, foolish, pass wakakuwaretia
Wakama---to be ashamed, bashful
Wakamaharatanga---remem-brance
Wakamahara---warn, cause to recollect
Wakamahana---to warm
Wakamahanga---offend
Wakamahu---the porch
Wakamaki---cleanse
Wakamamae --- cause sorrow, grieve
Wakamakutu --- bewitch, kai wakamakutu---sorcerer
Wakamarama---enlighten, light
Wakamaramatanga --- lighten, light
Wakamakuku---water, irrigate
Wakamarakerake---desolation
Wakamaru.---bruise
Wakamarie---comfort
Wakamarietia---comforted
Wakamaroke---dry
Wakamaiengi---bear, hold up
Wakamaiengitia---born
Wakamaori---translate, interpret
Wakamaoritia---translated
Wakamaoritanga --- interpretation
Wakamatau---teach
Wakamate---kill, destroy
Wakamaro---stretch forth
Wakamatautau---taste
Wakamatara---remove far off
Wakamea---cause
Wakamine---assemble, demand
Wakamoe---cause to sleep, lull into sleep
Wakamoemititanga---pleasure
Wakamomona---sweeten
Wakamuri---turn back
Wakamutunga --- the last, the uttermost, the end
Wakananu--- mix
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THE DICTIONARY.
Wakanuia---enlaige, magnify
Wakanoa---cause to be free
Wakanoho---cause to sit down, place, build, inhabit, fix
Wakanehu---grind to powder
Wakanohoia---fixed
Wakapaea teka --- to accuse falsely
Wakapaea---accuse
Wakipai---trim, make beautiful
Wakapaipai---well made, fine, beautiful, he mea wakipaipai---an ornament
Wakapaua---cause to be consumed, spend
Wakapaparanga---generation
Wakapakaru---cause to break
Wakapakarukaru---break into pieces
Wakapakeke---harden
Wakapaki---lay upon
Wakapehapeha --- boast , he hunga wakapehapeha --- a boaster
Wakapeke---cause to remove
Wakapenatia---to become like
Wakapakipaki---to quiet
Wakapapa---causing to explode
Wakapati---please
Wakapirau---put out, destroy, for instance, fire
Wakapiri---put close together
Wakapipi---cause to tremble
Wakapouri---causing sorrow
Wakapa---touch
Wakapakari---harden
Wakapono---causing to be true, believe
Wakapakoko---image, a canoe so called
Wakapononga---serve
Wakaponongatanga---service
Wakapoi---name of a place
Wakapoto---shorten, pass. wakapotoa
Wakapoti---persuade
Wakapokokoko---walk in twice
Wakapoko---go in
Wakapohehe---confuse
Wakapuaki---show, let out, utter, spread abroad, cry
Wakapuakanga---statute, law
Wakapuaretia---open
Wakapukupuku---inside, or the bottom of a canoe
Wakapuranga---gathering
Wakaputa---send, boast
Wakara---satisfaction
Wakaraka---step forward
Wakara---cause to rise, to be elected
Wakaranu---make gravy
Wakarangimarie---soften
Wakarau---making a hundred, collecting a number of slaves together
Wakararata---tame
Wakararurarua---care, be careful
Wakarawa---fasten
Wakarawa tatau---a lock, fastening for a door
Wakarere --- divorce, forsake, desert, cause to fly
Wakarerenga---divorce
Wakariharihangia---contempt
Wakarihariha---despise, abhor, pass wakariharihangia
Wakarite --- perform, fulfil, liken, fix
Wakariki---making a priest
Wakarikarika---horror
Wakariterite---reckon
Wakariro ke---change; wakariroia ketia---changed
Wakaro ---think, thoughtful, thought, purpose, end
Wakaroa---delay
Waka roa --- north-east wind, south island
Wakatakataka---cause to fall
Wakaruru---to entangle
Wakatatutu---to sound
Wakarongo---listen
Wakarongona --- cause to be heard
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Wakata---spying or looking at, a spy-glass
Wakatakariri --- disperse, provoke
Wakataka---cast, throw, roll
Wakatapu---make sacred
Wakatapunga---sanctification
Wakatakoto---to lay down
Wakatau---cause to meet
Wakatangi---sound
Wakataurekarekatanga ---slavery ; wakataurekareka---make slaves
Wakatahuritia---turn
Wakate---disperse quickly
Wakateka---lying
Wakaruaki---vomit
Wakatakariri---displease
Wakatapoko---enter
Wakateitei---exalt; wakateiteitia---exalted
Wakato --- sow; kai wakato--- sower, give life, cause to be pregnant
Wakatokia--- planted
Wakatorona---lift up, put forth, spread
Wakatu---lay the foundation
Wakaturi---to put, place
Wakatupehupehu---rebuke
Wakatika---stand up, arise, resist
Wakatiketike---exalt, to stretch himself
Wakatitari---scatter, strew
Wakatitore---to cause a fissure, to crack
Wakatuka---spread
Wakatuma---threaten
Wakatuwera---open
Wakatupato---cause suspicion
Wakatupu --- bring forth, become, cause vegetation, bring up
Wakatupuranga---birth, generation
Wakatorona---to put forth
Wakatorotoro---imitate, mimic
Wakatore torenga ki te rau---the flowers of a tree, bud
Wakatere---a swift canoe, a place so called, move, push
Wakatohi, cause to be immersed
Wakatoi---to be saucy, persecution
Wakatete---cause a quarrel; he tangata wakatete---a quarrelsome fellow
Wakawite---cross (a river)
Wakawitinga---crossing
Wakawakanga---judgment
Wakawa----judgment, council, to judge
Wakawaki---judge, account for
Wakawainga---temptation
Wakawairuatia---spiritual
Wakawai---enticing, beguiling
Wakawareware---making a pretence, simulate, cause to forget
Wakawateatia---give way, make place
Wakawerewere---to hang
Wakawetai---thank
Wakawawai---to make war
Wakawiu---afflict; wakawiua---afflicted
Wakawirinaki---rest, repose
Wakawiti --- cause to shine, rise, to brighten
Wakawitinga o te awa---crossing of the river
Wakawiri---to roll, cylindrical
Wakangiha---kindle ; pass, wakangihaia
Wakangoromia --- choke, kill, destroy
Wakangaue---shake
Wakanaugetia---shaken
Wakangungupa---fight in the pa
Wakangote---nurse, foster; kai wakangote---a nurse
Waki---confess
Wana---tender
Wana---a kick with the foot
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THE DICTIONARY.
Wanariki---brimstone
Wanau --- bring forth, bear (children)
Wanautanga --- birth, labour ; ra wanautanga---birth-day
Wanaunga ---family, relationship, as a cousin
Wanai---breadth
Wanake---yielding
Wapuku---the codfish
Wara---a blow, a garment so called
Warau---a sepulchre, a stone
Waraupo---a raupo swamp
Warahi---wide, broad
Waraki---heal
Ware na haere---a house in the wood
Ware ware---forgetful
Warewarenga---forgetfulness
Ware---house; ware here here ---prison
Ware pune---close house or bedroom
Ware papa---a house made of boards
Wari---a servant, poor man, a free man
Wariki---a covering, as a blanket
Warikiriki---put on
Waro---coal
Waru---eight, scrape, shave
Warua---a fertile plain
Warunga---the hairs of the beard when shaved, shavings of wood
Waruhia---shorn or shaven
Wata---a platform, or scaffold for stores, wickerwork seat in a canoe
Wata parete---scaffold for potatoes
Wata tao---name of a place
Ware kupenga --- fishing-net house
Ware poaka---pig-sty
Wati hu---a wind so called
Wati manana---the heart, seat of life
Watitiri---thunder
Wati---broken, erring about
Watiia---bend
Wati toka---a door
Watinga---a broken piece
Watu---weave; for instance, a mat
Watu---hail, hailing
Watua---name of a place
Watunga---a garment in the state of weaving
Wawaitanga---quarrel, wrestling
Wawai---adversary, a quarrelling, quarrel; he hoa wawai---an adversary
Wawahi---destroy; kai wawahi---destroyer
Wawaki---ear of corn
Wawao---intercede, interfere
Wawana---to feel
Wawara---scatter
Wawatia---turn, break
Wawe---shortly, short, near
Wanga---a chair
Wangaia---feed
Wangainga---the act of feeding another, nursing
Wangaingatahi --- one feeding; the mutton-bird, Titi, is thus called
Wanganui---name of a place Wanganui po---middle of the night
Wangapatiki---name of a place
Wangape---name of a place
Wangare---name of a place
Wangaroa---name of a place
Wangarura---name of a place
Wango---a groan
We---a caterpillar, proper name of a person
Weoke---name of a place
Weua---bone
Wehea---divide
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NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.
Wehe wehe---divide
Wehi---fear, to be afraid, danger, afraid
Weka---a large bird (Rallus Australis)
Wekau---bowels
Weminga---sneezing
Wenua---land, the placenta
Wenu---the warp of a web cloth
Werahia---to pierce, spear
Wera---scalded, burnt, warm
Wera wera---warm, heat
Were were---hang up anything
Wero---red
Werohi---wound
Werohia---wounded
Weru---a garment
Weta punga---a spider
Weta---an insect so called
Wetekina---loosen, free, untie
Wetengi---worn out, exhausted, as ground tilled several times
Weto---extinguish
Wetoi---a person neglected or unasked
Wetu---a star
Weturaka--- the starry firmament
Wewe---a boil
Weweti---loosen
Wi---a rush
Wio---whistle
Wiunga---the act of driving in, chastisement, flogging
Wiu --- to drive in, scourge, strike, a rod, a switch, the finishing border of a garment
Wiura---lightning, lighten
Wiua---to chase, to beat
Wiri---gimlet, bore, shake
Wiri wiri---choose
Wiria---name of a place
Wirikirikitia---to clothe, to dress
Wirinake---name of a place
Wiringa---trembling
Wiringa o te wenua --- earthquake
Wita---light
Witi---rise ; e witi ana te ra--- the sun is rising, appear
Witinga mai o te ra---sunrise
Witinga---rise, appearance
Witiki---girdle, bag, purse
Wito---a dwarf
Witu---eight
Wiwi---receive
Wiwi---rushes
Wiwia---a mixture
Wiwia---a snare made of rushes, long grass
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