tuatahi
1. (modifier) first.
Anei rā tā mātau maramataka tā te Māori mai i te rā tuatahi o te marama ki te toru tekau mā tahi o ngā rā o te marama (HP 1991:30). / Here is the almanac according to the Māori, from the first day to the thirty-first day of the month.
See also tua-
2. (noun) primary school.
Ko te hunga e tino pīrangi ana te Taura Whiri kia whakauru mai ki ēnei kura, ko ērā e whakaako ana i ngā kura tuatahi me ngā kura tuarua o te motu, ā, ko te reo Māori tētahi o ngā reo kawe i ngā kaupapa o te karaehe (HM 3/1996:5). / The group that the Māori Language Commission really want to enrol in these schools are those teaching in the primary and secondary schools of the nation, and where the Māori language is one of the teaching mediums of subjects of the school.
Pakanga Nui o te Ao Tuatahi
1. First World War, World War I, Great War.
Nō mua atu i te Pakanga Nui o te Ao Tuatahi mai i te 1914 ki te 1918 (HP 1991:21). / It was before the First World War from 1914 to 1918.
See also Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao
tua-
1. (particle) (numeral) Prefix used with numbers 1 to 9, aha and hia to form ordinals, i.e. to show something in an ordered arrangement, e.g. tuatahi, first. Such words with tua- may be used as a verb, a modifier, a noun or passively with the passive ending -tia.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 16;)
Ka tuahia koe ki Rānana? Ka tuatoru. / How many times have you been to London? Three times.
Ko te whiti tuatahi o te waiata nei he karakia nā te tohunga (M 2006:4). / The first verse of this song is a ritual chant by a tohunga.
E toru ngā take i haere mai ai ngā iwi nei. Ko te whenua te tuatahi; ko te pounamu te tuarua; ko te Pākehā te tuatoru (JPS 1959:271). / There were three reasons for these tribes coming to us. Land was the first, greenstone was the second, and the Pākehā was the third.
Ā, ka roa e noho ana a Hereure i tōna kāinga, ka puta te whakaaro kia tuaruatia mai anō e tana ope hei whakamātautau anō i a Rongo (JPS 1911:104). / And Hereure stayed a long time at his home; and then he decided to test Rongo with his party a second time.
Tau: I tuaaha rātou i te whakataetae rā? Ira: I tuawhā (HJ 2012:173). / Tau: Where did they place in that competition? Ira: Fourth.
See also tuatahi
2. (particle) Also used with ngahuru (but not tekau) for numbers 10 to 19.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 11;)
I piki a Tāne ki te tuangahuru mā rua o ngā rangi. / Tāne climbed to the twelfth heaven.
See also tuangahuru
