āki
1. (verb) (-hia,-na,-ngia) to encourage, urge on, challenge, induce, incite, exhort.
Āki atu hoki ia ki tana iwi o Rangitāne, kia mau te pupuri i ō rātou toenga whenua, kia mau tonu ki tō rātou mana, ahakoa pēhea te tāmia mai e Tauiwi (TTR 1990:176). / He also urged his Rangitāne people to hold fast to their remaining lands and to retain their authority, no matter how much they were oppressed by the colonists.
2. (verb) (-hia,-na,-ngia) to beat, pound, crash against, dash against, strike with great force, throw down, buffet, slam against, slam.
Āki ai ngā ngaru huhuka ki ngā paritū o te ākau (TK 14/4/1883:1). / The frothing waves crash on the cliffs of the coast.
I ahu mai taua kaipuke i Merika. He maha ngā rā i ākina ai e ngā tūātea nunui o te moana, tae rawa mai ki Ahitereiria ka ū ki runga toka (TP 7/1909:6). / That ship headed from America. For many days it was pounded by the huge breaking waves of the sea, and when it finally reached Australia it landed up on rocks.
Kaua e ākina te kūaha! / Don't slam the door!
Synonyms: tuki, kuru, kurukuru, pao, kōmekemeke, pātuki, pāuna, hamahama, pehu, patupatu, tātā, poutuki, whākuru
3. (verb) (-na) to replace.
Ka tango ki te pū wīwī, ka rere iho taua wahine nei ki roto ki te kōruarua, ākina iho hoki taua pū wīwī nei (NM 1928:9). / The woman removed the clump of rushes and fled down into the hole and replaced the clump of rushes.
4. (noun) urging, encouragement.
Kia tino maumahara ko koutou, ko mātou kē kei te pīkau i ngā raru o tēnei kura nā reira e pēnei nei te kaha o tā mātou āki (HM 4/1997:8). / You should remember well that we are carrying the liabilities for this learning gathering and that's the reason for the intensity of our urging.
tuki
1. (verb) (-a) to attack, knock down, tackle, butt, gore.
Ko 1836 pea te tau i whakatika atu ai te taua o Ngāti Porou, o Ngāti Kahungunu me tō rāua uku o Ngā Puhi i raro i a Te Wera Hauraki, ki te tuki i a Te Whānau-a-Apanui i Toka-ā-Kuku pā i Te Moana-a-Toi-te-huatahi (TTR 1990:164). / About 1836 a war party of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu, with an allied group of Ngā Puhi led by Te Wera Hauraki, went to attack Te Whānau-a-Apanui at Toka-ā-Kuku pā, in the Bay of Plenty.
2. (verb) (-a) to ram, bump, crash into.
Haere mai tonu te taraka nei, tukia tonuhia te taha katau o te pahi, hahaetia ana taua taha katoa (HP 1991:8). / This truck continued coming, crashing right into the right side of the bus, tearing away all that side.
3. (verb) (-a) to beat, pound.
Ka tukia te hīnau, ka opehia ki roto ki te hītari, ka ruia; nā ka horo ngā kiko ki te kete pai, ko ngā nganga ki roto i te hītari (W 1971:53). / The hīnau berries are pounded, scooped into the sieve and shaken; so the flesh falls into the nice basket, while the seeds remain in the sieve.
Synonyms: kuru, kurukuru, pao, āki, kōmekemeke, pātuki, pāuna, hamahama, pehu, patupatu, tātā, poutuki, whākuru
4. (verb) (-a) to give the timing (to paddlers).
6. (noun) carved wooden mouthpiece of a pūkāea or calabash.
7. (noun) paddling song (to give the timing to paddlers).
He waiata tuki waka, hei whakahauhau i ngā kaihoe (M 2007:160). / A paddling song to encourage the paddlers.
2. (verb) to strike, crash into, bump into.
Kīhai i mutu tana kōrero ka paoro tō rātou poti. I te pōuri, kīhai rātou i kite i paoro ki te aha (TWK 15:29). / He hadn't finished talking when their boat crashed. Because of the dark they couldn't see what they had struck.
3. (noun) echo.
Mau ana te paoro ki runga o Maunga-a-Kāhia (JPS 1901:203). / The echo was heard on Maunga-a-Kāhia.
4. (noun) drugg - wooden blocks used when the whale had been harpooned. These created drag for the whales designed to slow them down and thus tire them out. This is the likely meaning in this example.
Kotahi anō rerenga o ngā haeana a ngā autaia rā, te wiriwiri haere atu anō i te takiwā, tū atu ana ki te ika rā, tētahi ki mauī, tētahi ki katau, anana! Nā te paoro i pupuri, me he kurī kautete (TWMNT 18/9/1877:196). / Just one toss of the harpoons of those fellows and they quivered in the air, sticking into that marine mammal, one to the left and the other to the right, and low and behold, the drugg held like the piece of wood used in tying up a dog to prevent it from gnawing the rope.
2. (verb) to be jarred, vibrated, tingle, ringing.
3. (noun) rumble, crash (as thunder).
