tutuki
1. (verb) to be finished, completed, achieved, done.
Ka noho, ka roa, ka tutuki i a Pōtatau tana hiahia kia kite ā-kanohi tonu ia i te kauhanga riri (TTR 2000:161). / Eventually Pōtatau got his wish to see the front line with his own eyes.
Synonyms: eke, riwha, pahawa, porotutuki
2. (verb) reach the farthest limit, on the turn (of the tide), extend, succeed.
Ahakoa taitimu, taipari rānei, tū tonu te ia, me te ngaru hoki e tū ana. Engari kia tutuki rawa te tai, kātahi ka ngohengohe te ia (JPS 1946:30). / Whether it was ebb-tide, or flood-tide, the current ran strongly and its waves surged in. But when the tide was on the turn, then the current slackened.
2. (modifier) stumbling.
Kaua e hoki i te waewae tūtuki, ā pā anō hei te ūpoko pakaru (HM 1/1993). / Do not turn back because of stumbling feet, but only for a broken head (iA whakatauākī urging someone not to be deterred by minor obstacles, but to press ahead to the desired goal.)
3. (noun) knock, collision.
I pore atu a Ānaru ki te wai i a ia e heke atu ana i te huarahi ki te whakawātea ake i tana pā tuna. Kātahi te ara paritū, pōharuharu, kōpekapeka ko tēnei, torotika tonu te heke atu mā te pohonga harapaki nei ki te awa i raro atu. He kore nōna i hāparangi i a ia e taka rā, i whakaarohia ai nā te tūtuki pea i rehu ai ia (TTR 2000:5). / Andrew fell into the water while going down the path to clear his eel weir. It was a steep, muddy, zig zag track down the cliff face with a sheer drop into the river below. Because he did not cry out as he fell it is thought that he was probably knocked unconscious.
