hemo

1. (verb) to break wind, fart - usually as hemo te tou.

Ka hemo anake te tou o te tōtara, e tahuna nei te rākau tōtara ki te ahi, e papā nei te tōtara i te ahi, koia tēnā, ko tōna tou i hemo, i pāterotero (W 1971:45). / Only the bottom of the tōtara breaks wind when tōtara wood is burnt with fire, so when the tōtara explodes in the fire, then that is its bottom breaking wind, or farting.
Ka puta a Koro ki waho, ka hemo te tou, ka mea ake, "Aiā!" (HJ 2012:197). / When Grandad went outside, he farted and said, "That's better!"

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hemo

1. (verb) (-a) to die, to be faint.

Ko tētahi āhua, he tere te haere o te paihana i roto i ngā toto, ā, kāore anō kia whaturama te tinana kua hemo te tūroro (TTT 1/5/1922:8). / A symptom is the rapid spread of the poison in the blood and before the body develops scrofulous swellings the infected person dies.

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2. (verb) to go off, go away.

Ka hemo ōna tuākana ki te mahi, he tiaki tonu hoki tāna i te kāinga ia rā, ia rā (NM 1928:81). / When his older brothers had gone off to work, his job each day was to guard the village.

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3. (verb) to pass by, miss the mark.

Ka kūmea e Matapō te keu o tana pū, ehara, hemo ana te kariri, oma atu ana te tia (HJ 2012:196). / Matapō pulled the trigger of his gun, heck, the bullet missed and the deer fled.

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Synonyms: whakatipi, kape, kopa, tohipa, tāhapa, numi, pahemo, pahure, paneke, whakahipa, whakataha, taha, tīpoka, pahika, hiemi, hihipa, hipa, whakatataha

4. (verb) to cease, disappear, fade, vanish.

He kore tohunga mana, hei wehe ki te wai, kia hemo ake ai te aroha i ahau (M 2004:358). / There is no tohunga to perform the water ritual, so that my sorrow might disappear from within me.

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5. (verb) to need, desire, require.

Ināianei kua rawakore, kua hemo i te kai, ka haere noa ki te Kāwanatanga pākiki noa ai i tētahi kai hei oranga (TWMNT 5/10/1875:219). / Now they are impoverished and starving, and have to go to the Government to petition for food for their well-being.

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Synonyms: matainaina, minaka, matawara, hiahia, pīrangi, mate

[i] hemo te kariri

1. missed the mark.

Kāore i paingia ngā kōrero a ngā kaitōrangapū i Waitangi. Kia kī noa ake, i hemo te kariri. / The politician’s remarks weren’t liked at Waitangi. Let’s just say, they missed the mark.

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