tamaiti
1. (noun) child, boy - used only in the singular.
I roto i ā koutou tākaro, i te whutupaoro, i te hōkī, i te kirikiti, kāore he painga o te tamaiti e whakaaro ana ki a ia anake (TTT 1/8/1923:10). / In your sports, rugby, hockey and cricket, there is no benefit in a child thinking only as an individual.
tamaiti taurima
1. (noun) adopted child, foster child.
Waimarie i pahika ia, engari ko tana wahine ko Te Uamairangi, me tā rāua tamaiti taurima, ko Te Kakapi, i mau hereheretia (TTR 1990:330). / He was lucky and escaped, but his wife, Te Uamairangi, and their adopted child, Te Kakapi, were captured.
See also taurima
tamaiti whakaangi
1. (noun) stepchild, niece, nephew.
Ka moea e ia a Agnes Waikeria Anihana – ko Bella tētahi o ōna īngoa – o Ngāti Maniapoto, he tamaiti whakaangi nā Te Puea Hērangi ki te taha ki tōna whaea (TTR 1998:130). / He married Agnes Waikeria Anihana (Anderson), also known as Bella, of Ngāti Maniapoto, a niece of Te Puea Hērangi on her mother’s side.
tamaiti whāngai
1. (noun) foster child, adopted child.
Ka mate te matua whāngai, e riro rānei te whenua o te tūpāpaku i te tamaiti whāngai?...Ko te tikanga Māori mō te tamaiti whāngai, ka hoki anō ki roto i ngā pānga o ōna mātua ake, i runga anō i te take huihui, i heke mai i roto i te tino take ki te whenua, kāore hoki te whāngai e tangohia i waho o ngā whakapapa me te toto (TPH 30/8/1902:2). / When the foster parent dies, is the land of the deceased inherited by the foster child?...In Māori custom an adopted child would fall back on the rights to the land shares of his/her birth parents which would occur in gatherings where the inheritance of land was passed on, and the foster child would not have rights outside genealogical and blood ties. (Statements by Īhāia Hūtana of Ngāti Kahungunu.)
See also whāngai, matua whāngai, tamariki whāngai
whakaangi
1. (verb) to float, move easily, move freely, sail along.
Ka ū rawa ngā matikuku me te ngutu o te īkara rā ki tāna kai, kātahi ka hikitia ake ka whakaangi haere i runga ake o te whenua, e toru, e whā putu te mataratanga ake (TWMNT 6/10/1874:258). / With the claws and beak of that eagle firmly fixed on its food, it then raised her up and sailed along at three to four feet above the earth.
Synonyms: angi
2. (verb) to fall through the air, hurl oneself.
Nā, ka mutu tana waiata, kātahi ia ka whakaangi i taua toka nei ki te whakamōtī i a ia (NM 1928:198). / Then, when she had finished her song, she hurled herself off that rock to destroy herself.
3. (modifier) step relationship - e.g. matua whakaangi, stepfather. Tamaiti whakaangi is also used for 'nephew' or 'niece'.
I kōrerotia atu anō e tō mātou pāpā ki a ia kua kōhurutia e ia tō mātou whaea whakaangi (HTK 3/3/1894:3). / Our father had actually told him that he had murdered our stepmother.
See also tamaiti whakaangi, tamāhine whakaangi, pāpā whakaangi, tama whakaangi, matua whakaangi, whaea whakaangi, tamariki whakaangi
4. (noun) stepchild.
Koirā te tamaiti whakaangi, ko ngā tamariki nā te wahine, engari ka heria mai ka uru ki roto ki te whānau, he whakaangi ērā (Milroy 2015). / That's what a stepchild is, the children of the wife but ones she has brought into the family, those are stepchildren.
