2. (verb) (-a) to avenge, take revenge - also as huki toto.
Ka haere te taua huki toto i konei, tae rawa atu ki te wāhi i mate ai ngā hoa o Pokuru ko ngā upoko ko ngā piro anake te tāwheta ana i te tapātai o te awa (JPS 1928:183). / The avenging war party now started, and when they finally reached the place where the companions of Pokuru had died they found only the heads and intestines piled up on the shore of the river.
3. (adjective) be extra high (of the tide), spring (tide), king (tide).
He huki nō te tai, ka tīmata te nui haere, te nui ake o ngā tai (W 1971:68). / It's spring tides when the tides begin to become bigger.
4. (noun) spit for roasting food.
5. (noun) round house with a conical roof.
ngā tai a Kupe
1. exceptionally high tides, king tides, spring tides.
Ka whawhai atu koe ki ngā tai a Kupe (W 1971:361). / You will battle against the king tides.
Synonyms: taitai nunui
tai nui
1. (noun) spring tide, king tide, tidal wave, huge tide.
Tekau mā rua putu te teitei o te tai nui i pā atu ki te ākau o Tonga, he motu kei te taha whakarua o Niu Tīrani (TWMNT 5/6/1877:149). / The tidal wave that struck the shores of Tonga, islands to the north-east of New Zealand, was twelve feet high.
See also taitai nunui
taitai nunui
1. (noun) spring tides, king tides.
Ko ngā rohe o taua whenua ka tīmata i te ngutuawa o Te Hape kei Kauaeranga, haere tonu i te awa o Waiwhakaurunga i te mutunga tai timu ki te ngutuawa tai timu i ngā taitai nunui. / The boundaries of that land begin at the mouth of Te Hape at Kauaeranga and continue along the Waiwhakarunga river ending at the low tide at the river mouth at low tide when there are spring tides...
See also tai nui
Synonyms: ngā tai a Kupe
kato
1. (modifier) flowing, flood (of the tide).
Ko tēnei ka eke mātou ki runga poti, ka hoe ki ngā kāinga i te tai kato, kei eke ki ngā tāhuna onepū, kei kore rawa rānei e tata atu i te mimiti rawa o te wai, ā, takoto maroke ana ngā tāhuna (TWMNT 16/5/1876:114). / And now when we board a boat, we row to the villages on the flowing tide, lest we go aground on the sand banks, or are unable to get close to our destination because of the receding tide and are left high and dry on the sand banks.
2. (noun) flow, current.
I ahu mai te ingoa o Waikato nō te hekenga o Tainui i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. Ka tae mai ki Aotearoa, ka tau te waka ki waho i te wahapū o te awa, ka tohu ngā tāngata o runga ki te kaha o te kato o ngā wai o te awa i te wai tai. Nō konei tapaina ai te ingoa o te awa, ko Waikato (Te Ara 2015). / The name Waikato originated during the migration of the Tainui canoe over the Pacific Ocean. When it reached New Zealand and arrived off the mouth of the river, the crew remarked upon the pull of the river current in the sea. So the river was named Waikato.
2. (noun) source, origin.
Ko ngā pī o te pounamu i te takiwā ki Arahura me Māwhera te kaupapa o te haere (TTR 1990:371). / The reason for the travel was to go to the sources of greenstone in the Arahura and Grey River regions.
Synonyms: kunenga, takenga, pūnga, toi, pū, ahunga, orokohanga, mātāwai, pūtake, ūkaipō, orokohanganga, take
heru
1. (verb) to flow, rise (of the tide).
Kei te aha te tai? Kātahi anō ka heru mai (W 1971:46). / What is the tide doing? It has just started to rise.
Synonyms: pipī
2. (noun) flowing, rising (of the tide).
Kīhai i roa e whanga ana ka tīmata te heru mai o te tai, tere tonu te haere mai o te wai. Kīhai i taro kua tae mai ki te wāhi i noho ai a Parapoa rātou ko ōna hoa (TWMNT 2/5/1876:104). / He was not long waiting when the tide began to rise, and the waters rushed in. It wasn't long before they reached the place where Balboa and his companions were sitting.
2. (verb) to flow, rise (of the tide).
Synonyms: heru
2. (modifier) flowing, high (tide).
Ko te wāhi e tārewa ana ko ngā roto kei waenganui i ngā whenua, ko ngā parumoana, arā ko ngā whenua e pā ana ki ngā moana, e ngaromia ana e te tai pari. Ki te Māori he whenua ēnei nōna (TTT 1/8/1922:13). / The part still unresolved relates to lakes within the land and the seabed, that is the land associated with the sea which is covered by the high tide. To the Māori this land belongs to them.
mānunu
1. (modifier) full (of the tide) - strictly speaking used only of the tide before it begins to ebb.
I te marama o Pēpuere 1885, ka whakapuaki ia i ana māharahara ki te minita mō ngā take Māori, ki a Paranihi, he āwangawanga nōna mō ngā tikanga hī ika a te Māori: ka kī atu ia, "He māra nōku o raro atu o te tai mānunu. Mai rā anō tōku mana ki reira. Ko tāu ko tā te Pākehā e kī ana nā te Kuīni kē; he takahi tēnā i ngā ritenga Māori o neherā." (TTR 1990:75). / In February 1885, at a meeting with John Ballance, minister of native affairs, he expressed his concern about Māori fishing rights when he said, "I look upon the land below high-water mark as being part of my own garden…. My mana over these places has never been taken away…. But now, in consequence of the word of the Europeans that all the land below high-water mark belongs to the Queen, people have trampled upon our ancient Māori customs."
2. (noun) tide, sea - used as a noun.
2. (noun) bird snaring tree - a tree where birds are captured.
Nā, ka eke te tangata me tana mōkai kākā ki runga i te tūtū, ka whakangāngātia te mōkai, hei karanga i ētahi atu kākā kia rere mai (JPS 1895:135). / Now, when the man ascends to the tūtū with his decoy kākā, he makes the bird call out, to entice the other kākā to fly there.
2. (modifier) sour, fermented.
3. (modifier) neap (of the tide).
ninihi
1. (verb) to move stealthily, surprise.
I taua pō anō ka ninihi mai te hoariri ki te whakatoke i a rātou i tō rātou kāinga (PK 2008:1141). / That same night the enemy crept up to attack them by surprise in their village.
Synonyms: whakahengi, whakamomoka, whakamokamoka, whakaninihi, whakatōkihi, whakakoko, koropuku
2. (modifier) steep, precipitous.
E 60 ana tāngata i matemate ka taui a Te Kooti ki te pā tawhito i te tihi ninihi o Ngātapa (TTR 1990:87). / After losing about 60 of his followers, Te Kooti retreated to an ancient pā on the steep summit of Ngātapa.
Synonyms: tāhekeheke, kānihinihi, kaninihi, taparere, tūparipari, hūkere
3. (modifier) neap (tide).
Synonyms: kōwheuwheu
4. (noun) surprise attacking party.
Ka huna te ninihi i te taha o te ara, ka tatari kia puta mai te ope taua (PK 2008:499). / The surprise attacking party hid beside the path and waited until the war party appeared.
