hahunga
1. (noun) ceremony for uplifting bones - includes the actual disinterment, the scraping of the bones and ritual practices before moving them to a final resting place.
Nō te taenga mai ki konei kātahi ka karangatia te hui, arā te hākari, te pure mō taua hahunga mai (TWMNT 19/6/1872:85). / On arriving here the meeting was called, that is the feast and the ceremony for the uplifting of the bones.
huti
1. (verb) (hūtia) to pull out, pull up, haul up - the u becomes a long vowel in the passive form, i.e. hūtia.
2. (verb) (hūtia) to raise (a flag, etc.), hoist.
Ka kumea iho e taua heramana te haki o Whītī, ka hūtia ake te haki o Ingarani (TWMNT 15/12/1874:310). / The sailor pulled down Fiji's flag and raised the flag of England.
3. (verb) (hūtia) to pluck (feathers and hair).
I hūtia ake e te tangata mangumangu he huru manu i taku pare (TTR 1990:101). / A black man plucked a feather from my hair.
4. (verb) (hūtia) to fish, reel in.
Kei te huti ika ōna tuākana (NM 1928:14). / His older brothers were fishing.
5. (noun) pulling, hoisting, fishing, raising, plucking, uplifting.
pūwhata
1. (modifier) uplifted, upraised, raised, elevated.
Ko te nuinga o ngā whenua e mahia ana he whenua uaua, he whenua akeake, tae atu ki ngā whenua pungapunga o te mānia pūwhata o te puku o te ika (TTR 1996:109). / The majority of the land being developed was on difficult, infertile country, including the pumice lands of the central plateau.
Synonyms: tū, hītengitengi, rāngai, rāngaingai
riariaki
1. (verb) (-na) to lift up, raise, uplift.
Riariakina ngā waka uruora (M 2006:236). / Raise up the twin-hulled canoes.
Synonyms: riaki, whakatāiri, kōranga, hāpai, hiki, whakatupu, whakapakeke, mairanga, whakatū, whakaara, whakaikeike, whakarawe, whakatipu, whāngai, whakaaranga, hī, huataki, rangahua, huaranga, araara, whakatiputipu, whakakaurera, whakatairangaranga
