2. (verb) to die, pass away, pass on.
Haere rā, e Hana e, ka tāwhati koe (TWMNT 6/10/1874:251). / Farewell, Hana, you have passed on.
3. (modifier) sloping.
He ngahere ngā tahataha o te awa, tae tonu iho ki te taha o te wai. Ko te whenua i tahaki atu he whenua tāwhati, he pukepuke hoki, hakahaka nei (TWMNT 10/5/1874:110). / The banks of the river are covered with forest down to the edge of the water. The adjacent country is sloping, undulating and low-lying.
pahemo
1. (verb) to pass by, pass on, pass on one side, miss.
Te urunga atu o Tama-inu-pō haere tonu, ā, ka pahemo i te takuahi i te aronga ake ki te ihonui, kātahi anō ka huri mai (NIT 1995:121). / Tama-inu-pō entered and went straight on past the hearth that faced the floor space at the front of the house and only then turned round.
Synonyms: tāwhati, hihipa, hara, whakahoro, tītaha, tohipa, tāhapa, numi, pahure, paneke, whakahipa, whakataha, taha, tīpoka, pahika, hiemi, hemo, hipa, whakatataha, kopa, kape, whakatipi
2. (modifier) dying, passing away.
3. (noun) death.
He nui hoki ngā whakawhānau me ngā pahemo, nā reira i uaua ai te hōraparapa haere o te taupori (Te Ara 2016). / Birth and death rates were high, so the increase of the population was low.
2. (verb) to surpass, exceed, be more than.
Kua pahika atu ōna tau i te kotahi rau (TJ 19/1/1899:9). / He is over one hundred years old.
3. (verb) to pass by.
Ko te wāhi hoki tērā i whakaritea hei kitenga i a Te Kooti, te tangata i whakatuohutia e ngā pānui o te taha Pākehā - i kupukupua tonutia, i hakuhakua tonutia, e te tini, e te mano, i roto i ngā tau ka pahika ake nei (KO 15/2/1883:13). / And that was the place that had been arranged as somewhere to see Te Kooti, the man who was discredited by the publications of the Pākehā side - continually spoken about, continually being complained about by the masses in years gone by.
Synonyms: tohipa, tāhapa, numi, pahemo, pahure, paneke, whakahipa, whakatipi, taha, tīpoka, hiemi, hihipa, hemo, hipa, whakatataha, whakataha, kape, kopa
2. distressed, oppresssed, overcome by sensation or emotion.
3. beaten, baffled, at a loss.
4. (intransitive verb) be certain.
5. unavenged, unrequired.
6. unintelligble.
7. forgotten.
