2. (modifier) distant, remote, far-off.
He whenua nawa - tekau mā ono hāora i te waka rererangi e tae atu ai (PK 2008:493). / A distant land - reached after sixteen hours on a plane.
3. (interjection) used at the end of stanzas with no apparent meaning, often in the forms i nawa, mā nawa, mau nawa, kai mau nawa.
Kaea: Auē! Nō wai te motokā e topa mai ngā rori? Katoa: Auē! Nōu nei Kāwana tika mai nei tāua, i nawa! (VC 1943:8). / Leader: Whose is the motor car speeding hither along the highway? All: It is thine, O Governor, coming direct to me (VC 1943:9).
mānawa
1. (noun) an extra sweet variety of kūmara.
Huri te tau, kai te hauhake tonu ia i ngā kai o tana māra, i ngā rīwai, i ngā kūmara, i ngā mānawa (he momo kūmara tino reka), i ngā kānga, i ngā paukena, i ngā kamokamo, i ngā merengi, ā, i ngā kākāriki me ngā rōpere (TTR 1998:206). / Throughout the year he continued to harvest the crops of his garden, potatoes, kūmara, mānawa (a very sweet variety of kūmara), corn, pumpkins, marrow, water melons, rock melons and strawberries.
