waenganui
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 121;)
Kei waenganui o te whare me te taiepa tō mātou karāti. / Our garage is between the house and the fence.
See also waengarahi, waengapū, waenga
Synonyms: waenga, waengarahi, kōpū
2. (location) between (of time).
Nō waenganui o te tau, kātahi anō ka puta mai te whakaatu, kua whakaae mai rātou ki tā mātou tono. / In the middle of the year the notification arrived that finally they had agreed to our request.
waenganui pō
1. (location) midnight, middle of the night.
I waenganui pō, ka haere au ki te titiro haere i ngā hēteri mehemea kei te tika tā rātau mahi (HP 1991:179). / In the middle of the night I went to check on the sentries to see if they were doing their job correctly.
Synonyms: tūruapō, tūruawaenga pō, weheruatanga pō, weheruatanga o te pō, tūruawaenganui pō, tūruawē pō, tūrotowaenga, waipō, i waenganui pō, weherua pō, weherua
waenganui pū
1. (location) right in the middle, halfway.
Ka tae mai tōna waka ki waenganui pū o te moana, ka haere ake tōna atua i raro ka mau ki te toi o te hoe a te kaiwhakatere o tōna waka, arā ko Tūtangatakino (TWMNT 23/3/1875:65). / When he had got out into mid-ocean, his god rose from the depths and seized the point of the paddle of Tūtangatakino, the steersman of his canoe.
i waenganui pō
1. midnight.
Ka tae ki Awarua, ka whakaeke atu rātou ko tōna whānau ki runga ki tētahi poti hī ika i waenganui pō (TTR 1996:71). / When they reached Bluff, she and her family would board a fishing boat at midnight.
Synonyms: tūrotowaenga, tūruapō, waipō, weheruatanga pō, weheruatanga o te pō, tūruawaenganui pō, tūruawē pō, waenganui pō, weherua pō, weherua, tūruawaenga pō
waenga
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence. Variation of waenganui.
E hoa mā, tēnei tāku honae hōkeke, he mea kohikohi nāku nō waenga i ngā kōtai i ngā pareparenga o te ngutuawa o Kawaora (TJ 9/11/1899:15). / Friends, this is my small basket of ear fungus which I collected amongst the alluvial soils on the banks of the Kawaroa estuary.
Synonyms: waenganui, waengarahi, kōpū
2. (location) garden - when no noun is expressed.
Tērā te koroheke rā kua tae ki waenga e ngaki ana. / There was the elderly man who had arrived to weed the garden.
