Wāhine Toa

Question 1

tāpua

Answer 1

(verb) to stand out, be prominent, significant

Question 2

tūrehu

Answer 2

(noun) fairy folk - mythical being of human form with light skin and fair hair

Question 3

puiaki

Answer 3

(noun) treasure, prize

(adjective) be rare, precious, valued, prized

Question 4

iāianā

Answer 4

(location) now

Question 5

hemanga

Answer 5

(noun) empty space, void, container only partially filled

Question 6

haumūmūtanga

Answer 6

(noun) silence

Kāti, e Mate, haere rā i tō tira mokemoke ki tō tāua tini, ki tō tāua mano e kāpunipuni mai rā i te haumūmūtanga o te tangata, haere atu rā
Well, Mate, go with your lonely travelling party to our many ancestors gathered in silence, farewell.

Question 7

oreore

Answer 7

(verb) to shake, quiver, move

Question 8

mātātupu

Answer 8

(verb) to begin to sprout

Question 9

tuaukiuki

Answer 9

(modifier) old, of long-standing, established, ancient

Question 10

kōpū

Answer 10

(noun) belly, abdomen

Question 11

ai

Answer 11

(verb)(-tia) to copulate, have sex, make love

Mā Kahutia-te-rangi e kake tōku whare, mā te tamaiti i aitia ki runga ki te takapau wharanui

Kahutia-te-rangi, the son conceived on the takapau wharanui (in lawful wedlock), can climb onto my house.

Question 12

mawehe

Answer 12

(verb) to be separated, parted

Question 13

matenui

Answer 13

(verb)(-hia,-tia) to desire earnestly, show attention, desire desperately

Question 14

mōhukihuki

Answer 14

(noun) yearning, longing, wish, desire

Question 15

ahuahu

Answer 15

(verb)(-a,-ngia,-ria,-tia) to tend, foster, fashion, shape

Question 16

hae

Answer 16

(noun) envy, dislike, jealousy

Question 17

io

Answer 17

(noun) sinew, muscle, nerve, nervous system

Question 18

paihere

Answer 18

(verb)(-a,-ngia,-tia) to bind together in a bundle

Question 19

tuki

Answer 19

(verb)(-a) to attack, knock down, tackle, butt, gore

Question 20

pūmau

Answer 20

: (verb) to be fixed, constant, permanent, true to, steadfast, faithful, staunch

Koirā te hunga i kite ia i pūmau tonu ki ngā tikanga o te tapu
That was the group he saw were true to the practices of tapu.

Question 21

tōnuitanga

Answer 21

(noun) prosperity, abundance, plenty

Question 22

popore

Answer 22

(verb)(-a,-tia) to desire, wish anxiously for, want, show favour to, treat kindly

Question 23

ngākau kore

Answer 23

(verb) to be disinclined, unenthusiastic, callous, dispirited, indifferent

Question 24

auru

Answer 24

(verb)(-hia,-ngia,-tia) to break off, pluch up, pull out, destroy

Aurutia mai ngā tarutaru
Pull out the weeds, please.

Question 25

auaha

Answer 25

(modifier) creative, innovative

Question 26

pūhaehae

Answer 26

(stative) be envious, jealous

Question 27

nukarau

Answer 27

(verb)(-tia) to deceive

Question 28

tuauri

Answer 28

(modifier) ancient

Kete tuauri, kete tuatea, kete aronui: Ko ngā kete o te wānanga i tīkina e Tāne i a Io-matua

Kit of sacred knowledge, kit of ancestral knowledge, kit of life’s knowledge. These are the kits of knowledge that Tāne fetched from Io the-parent

Question 29

whāioio

Answer 29

(modifier) long ago - intensifies tūāuri, tūāuriuri, tuauri and tuauriuri where these are used to indicate a time in the distant past

Question 30

tawhiti

Answer 30

(verb) to be distant, far away, widely separated in space or time, remote

Question 31

rikiriki

Answer 31

(modifier) altogether, exceedingly - an intensifier especially following words involving pain, painful emotions or the senses

Tēnei tētahi kōrero pōuri mō te matenga o tētahi tangata ko Hāmuera Rīwai o Tikokino i kai i te waipiro i ngā rā tīmatanga o Āperira, ā, haere ana ki te mīhiini patu witi e mahi ana, ākina ana tōna ringaringa ki te taramu, naomia mai ana e te taramu kongakonga rikiriki tōna ringaringa, ā, mate tonu iho i te ata o tētahi rangi

This is a sad story about the death of Samuel Rīwai of Tikokino who drank liquor at the beginning of April, and he went to the wheat threshing machine when it was operating and he shoved his arm into the drum and when the drum grabbed it his arm was cut up into exceedingly small bits and he died on the morning of the next day.Kai rikiriki ai te aroha i au ki te iwi rā ē, ka tokona ki tawhiti

Sorrow is utterly consuming me for the tribe separated afar off.