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whea

1. (location) where? - variation of hea used especially by western dialects. An interrogative which functions like a locative or location word and is used after prepositions, i.e. kei whea? where?; ko whea? where is?; ki whea? where to?; i whea? where were? from where?; nō whea? where from?; o whea? of what place?; mā whea? via where? by what means?.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 3, 12, 29, 47-48; Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 64-65, 66;)

Mā whea mai koutou? / How did you come?/Which way did you come?

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See also hea


2. (location) when? - variation of hea.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 46-47;)

See also hea, āwhea, nōnawhea, inawhea


3. (location) and other places - when repeated after a particular particle following named places preceded by the same particle.

I muri mai o ngā whawhai ki te Pākehā, ka haere tonu ēnei mahi whakatupu kai i ētahi rohe, arā, i te Rohe Pōtae, i Parihaka, i Te Tai Rāwhiti, i hea, i hea (Wh3 2003:104). / After the wars with the Pākehā, these activities of growing crops continued in some regions, namely in the King Country, at Parihaka, on the East Coast and some other places.

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4. (location) any place, everywhere.

Whakarongo mai koutou katoa, ahakoa ū tō tātou waka ki whea, ki whea, o tēnei tuawhenua, ka hoki mai ahau, ko te tihi o te maunga rā taku kāinga (JPS 1893:222). / Listen all of you, whatever part of this mainland our canoe may arrives at, I shall return here, the summit of that mountain shall be my home.

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