2. (verb) to glide along, float along, move quickly.
E rere rā e te ao uru, tauhōkai ana i runga rā (G 1853:249). / Fly there o western cloud, floating along above.
3. (verb) to rise (of stars, planets, etc.).
4. (modifier) distance.
I hangaia ēnei whakaaturanga mō ngā akoranga tauhōkai reo Māori o te whare wānanga. / These television programmes were made for the university Māori language distance courses.
5. (noun) strut, cross brace.
Nā ngā tauhōkai i taunaki ngā kurupae matua (Ng 1993:459). / The struts supported the main girders.
2. (modifier) misplaced, mislaid.
I takaroa ahau nā te mea e kimi ana au i aku kī kōkēi. / I was late because I was looking for my mislaid keys.
3. (noun) distance.
Me piki tāua i te puke rā kia kite ai tāua pēhea te kōkēi o te onepū (PK 2008:288). / We should climb up that hill so that we can see how far away the beach is.
tūārangi
1. (modifier) from a distance, from afar.
Hei te 25 o ngā rā o Pēpuere ka tīmata te hui ā-tau a ngā tākuta o Nui Tīreni me ētahi takuta manuhiri tūārangi o ērā atu wāhi o te ao ki Rotorua (TTT 1/1/1928:714). / On 25 February the annual conference of New Zealand and international doctors begins at Rotorua.
3. (noun) distance.
4. (noun) visitors from afar.
Te tikanga ko Mātaatua katoa ka whakaeke i te rā tuatahi, i te Paraire. Koirā te ao o mua, kia pō takoto rawa rātau; kia kotahi katoa ai rātau; kia mātotoru ai te tū mai i te ata hei pōwhiri ki ngā manuhiri tawhiti, ngā tūārangi (EM 2002:94). / The practice is that all of Mātaatua should come on in the first day, the Friday. That was the old world, that they stay the night so that they are all united, and so that there is a large crowd to stand in the morning to welcome the visitors from a long way away, the visitors from afar.
2. (stative) be untied, untwisted, untangled.
Kua rīraparapa noa iho ngā makawe, kāore e matara ki te heru (W 1971:342). / The hair is in a tangled mass and can't be untangled with a comb.
3. (noun) distance.
He tika te mau o Ngāti Porou ki te nuinga o ō rātou whenua, te korenga i pau i te Pākehā te hoko, i te matara o tō rātou nā takiwā i ngā huarahi papatau o te Pākehā (TTT 1/8/1930:2120). / It's correct that Ngāti Porou retained most of their land and it was not sold to the Pākeha because their territory is quite distant from the sealed roads of the Pākehā.
tuakaihau
1. (location) the distance, distant, out of sight.
Ka hiki te kura ā muri tonu o te kai o te ata, ā te Paraire te 22 o Kohi-tātea, kia roa ai te wā ki te hunga haere mai i tuakaihau (HM 4/1992:1). / The educational gathering will end after breakfast on Friday, 22 January, so that there is plenty of time for the people who come from a distance.
Synonyms: makaro, ngaro, henumi, tārekoreko
2. (noun) distance.
Huri noa, huri noa i te tuakaihau, he maunga, he pae maunga, he matuaiwi (HM 2/2009:10). / In all directions in the distance were mountains, mountain ranges and rows of hills.
pāmamao
1. (verb) to be distant, remote.
I tae ai te rongo o tēnei whenua ki tētahi wāhi ko Uru te ingoa, kei uta kei te tuawhenua, kei te pāmamao atu i Irihia (JPS 1927:351). / The fame of this land reached a certain place named Uru, situated in the interior of the mainland far distant from Irihia.
2. (noun) distance.
E 200 iāri te pāmamao atu o taua rākau i te whare o Te Moi (TWMNT 8/2/1876:36). / The distance of that tree from Mr Moys's house was 200 yards.
2. (modifier) distant.
Kāhore ia rātou i kite i tā rāua tamaiti i mua - nō te mea i haere atu hoki rātou ki te whenua mamao me te roa o tā rātou noho ki reira (KO 15/5/1883:16). / But they didn't see their child before that because they went to a distant country and lived there a long time.
3. (location) a distant place.
He pua e rere i te hau, ka rere atu ki mamao (TP 1/1/1901:9). / A bloom blown in the wind, drifting to a distant place.
4. (noun) distance.
Hoe atu ana mātou ki tētahi wāhi o te toka, kīhai i kotahi māero te mamao mai i te motu (TTT 1/9/1926:464). / We rowed to another part of the rock which was less than a mile distance from the island.
tahiti
1. (stative) be distant, far away.
See also tawhiti
whakaaweawe
1. (verb) (-tia) to place at a distance, out of reach, recede into the distance.
Ka oti te takutaku ka tukua te teka kia rere, kātahi ka rere, whakaaweawe ki runga, aua rawa atu ki runga, kātahi anō ka ahu te uru o te teka ki te whenua, tau noa atu e toru tekau takoto te mataratanga i ā ētahi katoa (JPS 1925:313). / When he had completed the ritual chant he launched the dart and it flew a great distance upwards then the head of the dart turned toward the earth and it fell thirty takoto beyond all the others.
Synonyms: aweawe
2. (verb) to influence, have an effect on, have an impact on, affect.
E kore tētahi reo o te ao nei e kore e panoni, ka whakaaweawetia mai taua reo rā e te reo e ponitaka ana i taua reo rā, pēnei i a tātau me te reo Pākehā (Kāretu 2015). / There isn't a language of this world that doesn't change and is influenced by the language that surrounds it, as we are with the English language.
3. (modifier) influential.
Ko te tau i whānau ai a Tāpihana, ko te tau āno hoki i meinga a Paraire hei minita Wēteriana, ā, whāia i muri ake hei āpotoro Rātana whakaaweawe, mema Pāremata atu hoki (TTR 2000:139). / The year that Tāpihana was born was also the year that Paraire became a Methodist minister and later an influential Rātana leader and Member of Parliament.
4. (noun) influence.
Kei roto i ngā tangi ngā tikanga tuku iho, kāre anō kia rerekē ahakoa te whakaaweawe a te Pākehā (Te Ara 2013). / Traditional practices are maintained in tangi, which have changed little despite Pākehā influence.
pahaki
1. (location) near, handy to, nearby, close to, a short distance from, a little way from - a location word that denotes a small relative distance.
Kua tīmata te whiri taura a Hēmi Kararu i te huarahi o Hopihana, i pahaki o te whare karakia Pikopō. / James Caradus has commenced rope-making on Hobson Street, near the Catholic church.
Synonyms: tuke, tata, kō tata tonu atu, tūtata, pātata, taitata, maruatata, āwhiwhi, tātata, marutata, kātata, whātata
2. (noun) breadth, diagonal, brace, stay.
Ko te whānuitanga o te hōkai o tōna mōhiotanga, kua roa kē nei e mōhiotia ana e te ao Māori (TTR 1996:111). / His range and the breadth of his knowledge had long been known by the Māori world.
3. (noun) spasmodic movement (of the limbs).
4. (noun) quill feathers.
Synonyms: hōkaikai
mōriroriro
1. (verb) to be estranged, alienated, isolated.
Nā te pahekotanga o Pōhio ki a Te Maihāroa ka noho mōriroriro ia i te tini o ngā rangatira o Ngāi Tahu. E pukuaroha ana ki te tohunga, engari e whakahē ana ki āna mahi (TTR 1990:113). / By joining Te Maiharoa, Pohio alienated himself from the majority of the Ngāi Tahu leaders, who sympathised with the tohunga but did not approve of his actions.
2. (verb) to be almost out of sight, just visible.
Mōriroriro kau ake i roto i te wai (W 1971:210). / It was only just visible in the water.
3. (modifier) alienated, estranged, isolated.
Nā te pahekotanga o Pōhio ki a Te Maihāroa ka noho mōriroriro ia i te tini o ngā rangatira o Ngāi Tahu (TTR 1990:113). / By joining Te Maihāroa, Pōhio alienated himself from many of the Ngāi Tahu leaders.
4. (noun) isolation, estrangement, distancing, alienation.
Nā Tūhaere te whakatenatena ki a Tāwhiao kia mutu te mōriroriro (TTR 1990:366). / It was Tūhaere who encouraged Tāwhiao to give up his isolation.
2. (noun) elbow, angle, bend.
Ko te tuke o te ringaringa mauī kia tika tonu ki te tuarā (HP 1991:113). / The elbow of the left arm should be right in line with the back.
3. (noun) traditional measure of length from an elbow to the tip of the hand.
Ko te tiketike o ngā pakitara kia kotahi te whanganga; ko te whānui kia kotahi te whanganga me te tuke ringa, ka mutu (JPS 1929:258). / The height of the walls was one fathom; the width was one fathom and the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the hand.
4. (adjective) be a short distance, stone's throw away.
Synonyms: pahaki
2. (noun) distance apart.
Kātahi mātau ka haere, ka tata atu mātau, kātahi ka wehewehe tā mātau haere, arā 10 iāri te tāwhitiwhiti o tētahi i tētahi (TPH 31/10/1900:2). / Then we went and when we were close then we separated so that we were 10 yards apart from each other.
