Found 6 matches
whaea Play
1. (noun) mother, aunt, aunty.
Kei te hikihiki tāre tonu ia, ā kei te hikihikitia tonutia hoki e tōna whaea (TP 4/1908:1). / He still carries dolls in his arms and is still nurtured by his mother.
whaea whāngai Play
1. (noun) foster mother.
I a au i tō māua kāinga o taku whaea whāngai, i Te Whakakī, e pātata atu ana ki Nūhaka, ia Rārima, haere ai au ki Te Wairoa mā runga i ngā hōiho e rua o taku whaea Pākehā (HP 1991:45). / While I was at my foster mother and my home in Whakakī, near Nūhaka, each Friday I went to Wairoa on the two horses of my Pākehā mother.
See also whāngai
whaea kēkē Play
1. (noun) aunt, auntie, aunty.
Ko te whānau Grennell ētahi anō hoki o ngā kaihaka o te rōpū kōnohete i whakahaerea rā e Rāhera Tainui, he whaea kēkē nō Airini (TTR 2000:63). / The Grennell family were some of the performers of the concert party run by Rāhera Tainui, an aunt of Airini.
whāea kēkē Play
1. (noun) aunties.
Ko te take i karangatia ia ko Pītiti, he mau nō tētahi o ōna whāea kēkē e raweke pītiti ana i reira, ka tapaina ia ko Hēmi Pītiti Huata (TTR 1996:59). / The reason he was called Pītiti (Peach) was because one of his aunts was caught pilfering peaches, so he was named Hēmi Pītiti Huata.
See also whaea kēkē