rokohanga
1. (verb) to be overtaken, be found, come upon (only used in the passive forms).
Ka tomokia te whare o te kaumātua rā, rokohanga atu e noho ana i te taha o te ahi, e tū ana hoki te kōhua kai (KO 15/9/1883:7). / When they entered that elder's house, they came upon him sitting beside the fire and a pot of food.
whakapū
1. (modifier) basically, fundamentally, founding, originating.
Ahakoa rā te rerekē, riro ana tēnei hei kaupapa whakapū i te noho tahi a Rua rāua ko te mihingare, ko Hoani Rōtene (TTR 1996:182). / Despite being unusual, this was the basis of the co-operation that developed between Rua and the missionary, John Laughton.
Synonyms: whakapūmau
rokohina
1. (verb) to be overtaken, be found, come upon (only used in these passive forms).
Auina ake ka rere, ka hoe, ā ka rokohina atu a Te Rauparaha i te wāhi e kīia nei e te Pākehā ko Cloudy Bay, arā, i Kākuta (JPS 1901:92). / Next morning they set off paddling and overtook Te Rauparaha at the place called by Pākehā Cloudy Bay, that is Kākuta.
kurapae
1. (noun) treasure found accidentally.
Nā Māhina i kite te kura o Hā-popo, nā Mā-ihiihi i kite tō Tai-ninihi i muri mai, i te takutai; tono noa ngā tāngata rā i ō rāua kura, kāore i whakahokia mai. Ko te whakautu, "Mānawatia e koe te kurapae a Māhina!" (NIT 1995:37). / Later Māhina found the red feather plumes of Hā-popo and Mā-ihiihi found Tai-ninihi's, on the beach. When those men asked for their red feather plumes they weren't returned to them. The response was, "Be resigned to it, it is Māhina's treasure found accidentally!" (A saying equivalent to 'finders keepers'.)
taratara-a-Kai
1. (noun) a pattern of surface decoration in carving and in weaving found especially on pātaka.
Ko te taratara-a-Kai. He hohoko ngā pakini ki ngā ripa whakarara (RTA 2014:210). / The taratara-a-Kai decorative carving pattern. Notches alternate with parallel ridges.
See also taratara-o-Kai
2. (noun) blister.
3. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, wāwā
kāpūngāwhā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
kōpūngāwhā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
papao
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
wāwā
1. lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū
kōpūpūngāwhā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: paopao, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
kūwāwā
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, paopao, papao, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
paopao
1. (noun) lake club-rush, soft-stem bulrush, true bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Schoenoplectus validus - a tall, spiky, sedge found in shallow, freshwater and estuarine habitats. It can grow in more brackish habitats than kuta, and is found on the margins of rivers, lakes and ponds up to 300 m above sea level. Growth is seasonal with stems dying back over winter. Harvested in summer, the stems are hung in bundles and dried. The stems contain white spongy pith, which gives some insulation when used to make sleeping mats. Found throughout the North Island. In the South Island it is found in southern Nelson, Marlborough and Westland, as well as at Christchurch and in and near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
See also kāpūngāwhā
Synonyms: kōpūpūngāwhā, papao, kūwāwā, kāpūngāwhā, kōpūngāwhā, kōpūpū, wāwā
mānihi
1. (noun) red pondweed, Potamogeton cheesemanii - native aquatic plant found in coastal to montane areas throughout the country, but mostly found in coastal and lowland areas. A common plant of ponds, lake margins and slowly flowing streams. Also colonising roadside ditches. Cream or red-pink flowers in November-March.
Synonyms: rērēwai
2. (noun) mud pondweed, Potamogeton suboblongus - an endemic aquatic plant of coastal to subalpine area, being mostly found in upper montane and subalpine areas in the northern part of its range. More commonly found in shallow, muddy hollows in forest, and colonising tarns and alpine soaks and pools which may partially dry out in summer. Flowers December-March.
Synonyms: rērēwai
pure
1. (noun) scallop, queen scallop, Pecten novaezelandiae - a fan-shaped bivalve mollusc found on sand and mud-banks from low tide level to depths of 45 m. The top shell is flat and the bottom half curved.
See also tipa
Synonyms: tipa, tupa, pūpū kōrama, kawari, koeti, koriakai, korohiwa, korona, kūpā, matamatangongo, matatangata, matapura, hānea, tākupu, rehoreho, taiwhatiwhati, tanetane, torewai, uere, wētiwha, karahū, tairaki, pipi tairaki, kūkuku, kukupati, papahurihuri, poua, toitoi, tio, toheroa, tuangi haruru, kākara, mitimiti, ngārahu tatawa, peke, ataata, pūpū atamarama, tihi, tio para, tio repe, totoro, totorere, toretore, ngaingai, taiawa, tūpere, ngaere, kukupara, ngākihi awaawa, kuku-mau-toka, ngākihi tea, matangongore, maurea, karehu, ngāruru, papatua, waharoa, ururoa, wahanui, ngāeo, pipi, tūteure, ngākihi hiwihiwi, ngākihi kopia, papatai, hahari, hūai, pātitotito, peraro, pūpū karikawa, pūpū māeneene, pūpū waharoa, pūpū waitai, pūtātara, pūrimu, takarepo, tākai, piritoka, kahitua, awatai, harihari, hinangi, hopetea, whāngai karoro, pūpū rore, pāua, tātara, whētiko, karahiwa, kararuri, karekawa, koeo, koeti, koio, pūpū, ngārahu taua, peke, kaitangata, pūpū kōrama, tihipu, tihi, tio para, tio repe, totoro, tuatua, ngākihi, kākahi, rūharu, kuhakuha, ngākihi hahae, ngākihi awaawa, kuku-mau-toka, niania, matangārahu, mimiti, tītiko, ngaeti, karoro, ururoa, wahanui, ngāeo, pipi, tūteure, ngākihi hiwihiwi, ngākihi kopia, papatai, hohehohe, kōmore, pātiotio, karariwha, pūkauri, pūpū harakeke, pūpū tuatea, pūpū waitai, purewha, ruheruhe, takai, tūroro, pōrohe, angarite, hauwai, hihiwa, hoehoe, kāeo, pīpipi, pūpū taratara, poro, pūpū tarataratea, kōrama, kororiwha, marapeka, mātangata, kōramu, tōrire, kurewha, pipi taiari, rereho, takarape, tāwiri, tungangi, wahawaha, whētikotiko, tohemanga, ngūpara, kuharu, kūkukuroa, pūkanikani, hākari, rerekākara, toitoi, tikoaka, tuangi, tuangi haruru, kaitua, miware
2. (noun) delicate scallop, Zygochlamys delicatula - found in deep water at depths of 75-550 m. Up to 6 cm wide with white, yellow, orange red or pink shell. Found around coasts of South and Stewart Islands.
kehakeha
1. (noun) smelt, common smelt, Retropinna retropinna, Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Common smelt found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Stokell's smelt only found in lower reaches of rivers in the Marlborough-Canterbury coast. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
2. (noun) succulence, tenderness, softness, lushness.
Ka rawe te ngaore o te mīti ka āta tunua mō te hia hāore - kāore te paroparo e mamae i te roa e katikatia ana, e ngaungaua ana (HJ 2017:113). / The succulence of meat slowly cooked for several hours is excellent - the skull will not become sore from biting and chewing.
Synonyms: matomato
3. (noun) smelt, common smelt, Retropinna retropinna, Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Common smelt found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Stokell's smelt only found in lower reaches of rivers in the Marlborough-Canterbury coast. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
tio
1. (verb) (-a) to be sharp, piercing (of the cold).
I te roa e tioa ana e te mātaratara, ka poroa ngā matimati o tana waewae mauī (PK 2008:931). / Because he was so long exposed to the intense cold, the toes of his left foot were amputated.
Synonyms: ratarata, hīmoemoe, kokoi, aneane, ngutu atamai, whakakoikoi, piki, pīrata, koi, naho
2. (modifier) freezing.
Mehemea kāhore e utua ngā nama, ka ākina rātou ki tētahi whenua e noho pūmautia ana e te huka, ā, whawhati ana ō rātou wheua i te hukapapa tio (TTR 1994:186). / If they did not pay they would be sent to an ice-bound country where their bones would crack from the freezing cold.
3. (noun) ice, freezing cold.
Kia mātaratara i runga, kia mātaratara i raro, kia ao ake te rā, he tio, he keho, he hauhunga (TMT 2/9/1861:23). / Let it be intensely cold above and below, let the day dawn with freezing cold, ice and frost.
4. (noun) rock oyster, Saccostrea cucullata - a bivalve mollusc found cemented to rocks below high tide. Because of its clustering habit it assumes varied shapes. Found only on the northern coast of the North Island.
Ko ā rāua tio mā tāua mō te Kirihimete (TWK 11:21). / Their rock oysters will be for you and me for Christmas.
See also tio repe
Synonyms: tio repe, matapura, tōrire, hānea, karahiwa, kararuri, karekawa, kawari, koeo, koeti, koriakai, korohiwa, korona, kororiwha, kūpā, marapeka, matamatangongo, mātangata, matatangata, kōramu
5. (noun) rough tree fern, Dicksonia squarrosa - native, medium-sized tree fern with a slender, often branching, trunk covered with black, peg-like remains of fallen fronds. Few fronds that spread horizontally with a few persistent brown dead fronds.
