hāwhe
1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to halve.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 28;)
Nō te taenga atu o ngā pukapuka tuku ki te Kāwanatanga, i hāwhetia te whenua, kātahi ka pania e te Kāwanatanga te wāhi i utua me te wāhi kīhai i utua ki te pane whero (TW 16/11/1878:576). / When the documents reached the government, the land had been halved, then the government wiped off the part that had been paid for and the part that had not been paid for with stamp duty.
2. (loan) (noun) half.
Engari, ko te hāwhe o te moni me hōmai ki a mātou ināianei, ā hei te taenga mai o te mīhini ka hōmai i te hāwhe i toe iho (TW 12/2/1875:12). / But half the payment should be given to us now and the balance when the machine arrives.
3. (loan) (noun) halfback (rugby, football).
hāwhe-kāihe
1. (loan) (noun) half-caste - person whose parents are of different ethnic groups.
He mea hoki ko te Tāke hāwhe-kāihe te iwi i kīia nei ko rātou te Kāwanatanga o te iwi Tāke (TW 17/8/1878:413). / And it is the half-caste Turks who are said to be the people who make up the Government of the Turkish people.
See also hāwhe-kāehe
