Mihi Kupu

Question 1

horetātā

Answer 1

(verb) to be fierce, truculent, ferocious, belligerent, hostile

Question 2

marutuna

Answer 2

(stative) be imposing, awe-inspiring, commanding

Question 3

wehi

Answer 3

(verb)(-ngia) to be awesome, afraid, fear

Question 4

horetītī

Answer 4

(verb) to be fierce, truculent, ferocious, belligerent, hostile

Question 5

kauanuanu

Answer 5

(verb)(-tia) to respect, think highly of, admire, esteem, revere, venerate

Question 6

pīpipi

Answer 6

(noun) cirrostratus - cloud forming a thin, fairly uniform semi-translucent layer at high altitude. Often used in the phrase pīpipi o te rangi

Question 7

rongomaiwhiti

Answer 7

(noun) sacredness, uniqueness

Question 8

pare kawakawa

Answer 8

(noun) mourning wreath (for the head), chaplet - garland of greenery worn by women at tangihanga

Question 9

tāura

Answer 9

(noun) trainee, student, initiate

Question 10

takatū

Answer 10

(verb) to prepare, get ready (used only of people getting ready), make ready.

Question 11

kōmata o te rangi

Answer 11

(noun) zenith, highest point of the celestial sphere, acme, high point, pinnacle

Question 12

mōteatea

Answer 12

(verb) to grieve

Question 13

mātāwaka

Answer 13

(noun) kinship group, tribe, clan, race, ethnic group

Question 14

pūatatangi

Answer 14

(noun) dawn chorus

Question 15

ahunga

Answer 15

Noun direction (of movement), bearing, orientation

Question 16

tōpū

Answer 16

(verb)(-tia) to be assembled, in a body, as a group

Question 17

pītongatonga

Answer 17

(modifier) thick, impervious, impenetrable, impermeable

Question 18

tīkoke

Answer 18

(modifier) high in the heavens, high, tall, towering, lofty

Question 19

tūtarakauika

Answer 19

(noun) leader of a school of whales, personification of whales

Question 20

tinei

Answer 20

(noun) extinguishment, elimination, obliteration, extinguishing

Question 21

tārake

Answer 21

(modifier) isolated, standing out in the open

Tōna tikanga kia papā te whatitiri, kia hikohiko te uira, kia pōrukuruku te rangi i tō wehenga atu, engari i rangi pai huarere, i tau ko pakiwaru, ko te paki o Atutahi, te whetū tārake o te rangi (HM 1/1995). / The thunder is supposed to resound, the lightning flash and the sky be clouded over at your departure, but it’s a fine day, the fine weather has settled and it’s the fine weather of Canopus, the star that stands out in the sky.

Question 22

“E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā, nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa me Papatūānuku. Ko ngā tohu a ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu.”

Answer 22

Time will not dim the memory of the special class of rangatira of the past who braved the wide expanse of the ocean and land. Their sacred footprints are scattered over the surface of the land, treasured and sacred.

Question 23

tāwhati

Answer 23

(verb) to die, pass away, pass on

Question 24

ikapahi

Answer 24

(verb)(-tia) to assemble, come together, congregate

Question 25

pūhangaiti

Answer 25

(verb) to lie in a heap

Question 26

pani

Answer 26

(verb)(-a) to smear, spread (anything upon something else), daub, paint, polish

Question 27

whakarei

Answer 27

(verb)(-a) to ornament, embellish

Question 28

tokomatua

Answer 28

(noun) group (of people), gang, band, work gang