2. (loan) (noun) typhoid, typhus.
Nō tēnei wā pea, ka pāngia ia e te mate taipō piwa, ka mā katoa nei ōna makawe (TTR 1998:208). / Probably at about this time he caught typhoid fever and his hair turned white.
taipō
1. (noun) goblin, spook, ghost - unwanted supernatural visitors not of human origin that haunt the living.
Nō tō rāua kitenga atu i taua taipō ka mutu tā rāua kai, kātahi rāua ka tahuri ki te karakia. Ka mutu kātahi ka rotarota mai te taipō nei ki a rāua, ko te rotarota tēnei: ko te ringa i haere i te pāpāringa mauī ki te pāpāringa katau (TPH 29/9/1900:5). / When they saw that ghost they stopped eating and then began to say ritual chants. When they stopped the ghost made a hand sign to them and this was the gesture: its hand went from its left cheek to the right cheek.
pīwa taipō
1. (loan) (noun) typhoid, typhoid fever.
E rua anō ngā rā i muri mai ka pāngia ia e te pīwa taipō (TP 5/1900:10). / Two days later, he was stricken with typhoid fever.
See also taipō
taipō pīwa
1. (loan) (noun) typhoid fever, typhus - an example of two words that commonly go together being treated as though they were one word when borrowed into Māori. With normal word order in Māori, one would expect the loan to be pīwa taipō, which is also common in the literature for the first half of the 20th century, but taipō pīwa, or mate taipō, is much more common in modern Māori.
I whakaatu anō ia i te āhua o te taipō pīwa, te pūtake mai me te rongoā (TP 5/1901:11). / He gave instruction on the nature of typhoid fever, the origin and the cure.
See also pīwa taipō, taipō, taipō piua
mate taipō piwa
1. (loan) (noun) typhoid, typhoid fever.
Nō te tau 1940, i muri i te putanga mai o ngā pūrongo o te mate taipō piwa, ko te minita Māori, ko Frank Langstone tēnā e whai kupu ana, arā, mā te kāwhaki e whakamarara te hau kāinga (TTR 1996:167). / In 1940, after reports of typhoid, Native Minister Frank Langstone was talking of using force to disperse the community.
