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Huitanguru

1. (personal noun) ninth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to February.

Nō te Huitanguru i te tau 1949 i whānau ai taku teina. / In February 1949 my younger brother was born.
Huitanguru: Kua tau te waewae o Ruhi kai te whenua (Best 1922:16). / Huitanguru: Ruhi's foot rests on the land.

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