1. (verb) (-tia) to strike by chance, meet by chance.
Inā pere te titiro ki ngā kaupapa whāiti o te ao hou nei, me uaua ka matawhaia ki tētahi kupu Māori e hāngai pū ana ki te kupu Pākehā e hiahiatia ana kia whakamāoritia (HM 1/1993:4). / When one looks at specific topics of this modern world one rarely happens upon a Māori word that exactly fits the English word that one wants to translate.
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