People and their groups

Question 1

Ariki

Answer 1

male or female of high inherited rank from senior line of descent

Question 2

Hapū

Answer 2

clan, tribe, independent section of a people (modern usage – sub-tribe); pregnant

Question 3

Iwi

Answer 3

people, nation (modern usage – tribe); bones

Question 4

Kaumātua

Answer 4

elder or elders, senior people in a kin group

Question 5

Ngāi Tātou

Answer 5

a term for everyone present – ‘we all’

Question 6

Pākehā

Answer 6

this word is not an insult; its derivation is obscure; it is the Māori word for people living in New Zealand of British/European origin; originally it would not have included, for example, Dalmatians, Italians, Greeks, Indians, Chinese

Question 7

Rangatira

Answer 7

person of chiefly rank, boss, owner

Question 8

Tama

Answer 8

son, young man, youth

Question 9

Tamāhine

Answer 9

daughter

Question 10

Tamaiti

Answer 10

one child

Question 11

Tamariki

Answer 11

children

Question 12

Tāne

Answer 12

man/men, husband(s)

Question 13

Teina/taina

Answer 13

junior relative, younger brother of a brother, younger sister of a sister

Question 14

Tipuna/tupuna

Answer 14

ancestor

Question 15

Tuahine

Answer 15

sister of a man

Question 16

Tuakana

Answer 16

senior relative, older brother of a brother, older sister of a sister

Question 17

Tungāne

Answer 17

brother of a sister

Question 18

Wahine

Answer 18

woman, wife (wāhine: women, wives)

Question 19

Waka

Answer 19

canoe, canoe group (all the iwi and hapū descended from the crew of a founding waka)

Question 20

Whāngai

Answer 20

fostered or adopted child, young person

Question 21

Whānau

Answer 21

extended or non-nuclear family; to be born

Question 22

Whanaunga

Answer 22

kin, relatives