Entries from Williams 1971 in Pollex-Online
Williams, H. W. (1971). A Dictionary of the Maori Language. Wellington, Government Printer.
Language | Item | Description |
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New Zealand Maori | Hotu | Fifteenth night of lunar cycle |
New Zealand Maori | Hotu(hotu) | Sob |
New Zealand Maori | Hourua | Double canoe |
New Zealand Maori | Huu | Any explosive noise/sound |
New Zealand Maori | Huu | Silently, secretly |
New Zealand Maori | Hua | Fruit, bear fruit; abundance |
New Zealand Maori | Hua/hua | Birds captured for food Problematic |
New Zealand Maori | Oo/hua | Fourteenth night of the moon |
New Zealand Maori | Hua | Roe of abalone |
New Zealand Maori | Huahua | Pimple |
New Zealand Maori | Huaanga | Relative, member of same hapu or clan |
New Zealand Maori | Huata | Spear with knob on butt |
New Zealand Maori | Huatahi | Only child |
New Zealand Maori | Hue | Calabash gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) |
New Zealand Maori | Huu(w)haa | Thigh (especially inner sides of) |
New Zealand Maori | Huhu | Larva of beetle sp. (Prionoplus reticularis) |
New Zealand Maori | Huhu | Strip off outer covering |
New Zealand Maori | Hunga/hunga | Tow of flax, down, nap, fine dust |
New Zealand Maori | Hui | Congregate, come together, meet |
New Zealand Maori | Huu/(w)ai | Cockle (Chione stutchburyi) Problematic |
New Zealand Maori | Huia | A bird (Heteralocha acutirostris) |
New Zealand Maori | Huka/huka | Lock of hair |
New Zealand Maori | Huka | Foam |
New Zealand Maori | Huke | Uncover (especially an earth oven) |
New Zealand Maori | Hura | Scrofulous swelling |
New Zealand Maori | Hura | Nervous twitching of the shoulder; lift the arm suddenly with the elbow bent |
New Zealand Maori | Maahure/hure | Cut to pieces, reduced to fragments; thief |
New Zealand Maori | Hure | Search |
New Zealand Maori | Hura | Begin to dawn; begin to flow, of the tide; bare, bald |
New Zealand Maori | Huri | Turn (round or over) |
New Zealand Maori | Huritua | Turn the back, face about = huritaitua, hurikotua |
New Zealand Maori | Huna-a | Conceal |
New Zealand Maori | Huna | The moon on the tenth day |
New Zealand Maori | Huna | Destroy, devastate, lay waste |
New Zealand Maori | Hunaonga | Son-in-law, daughter-in-law |
New Zealand Maori | Hunoonga | Son/daughter-in-law |
New Zealand Maori | Hune | Pappus of raupo seeds; down (of birds etc.) |
New Zealand Maori | Huuhi | Swamp n |
New Zealand Maori | Huuhi | Cat’s cradle, a string game |
New Zealand Maori | Hu(hu)ti | Pluck, pull up/out |
New Zealand Maori | Huutia | Passive of hu(hu)ti |
New Zealand Maori | Hutu | A tree (Ascarina lucida) |
New Zealand Maori | Poo/hutu/kawa | A tree (Metrosideros excelsa) |
New Zealand Maori | Hutu/kawa | A tree (Metrosideros tomentosa) |
New Zealand Maori | Ngaa | Take breath, breathe |
New Zealand Maori | Nga | Definite article plural |
New Zealand Maori | Ngaere | Soft, ripe; quake, oscillate (as a bog) |
New Zealand Maori | Ngawhaa | Burst open, overflow (of a river), split |
New Zealand Maori | Ngawhingawhi | Torn, worn out, exhausted |
New Zealand Maori | Ngaahoa/hoa | Headache |