wai
2. (personal noun) what? (for people's names).
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 2-3;)
3. (personal noun) who? - when asking for a person's second name.
4. (personal noun) and others - used when the speaker cannot, or does not want to, give all names.
Ko Tiāre, ko Hōri, ko wai ake i roto i te tīma tuatahi. / There was Charlie, George and others in the first team.
2. (noun) stream, creek, river.
Ka haupū te kupenga tawhito ki uta, ki ngā parenga o ngā wai tauraki ai ki te rā, ka maroke, ka pakapaka (TP 1/1/1901:6). / The old net lies in a heap on the shore and on the banks of streams to dry in the sun. It dries out and is baked.
Synonyms: awa
3. (noun) tears.
Kai te pūheke mai te wai i aku kamo (TW 26/1/1875:12). / The tears are flowing from my eyes.
tētē wai
1. (noun) grey teal, Anas gracilis - a light grey-brown duck with pale grey cheeks, chin and foreneck, a blue-grey bill and red eyes, found in lowland lakes, lagoons and estuaries.
See also tētē
kānga wai
1. (loan) (noun) fermented corn eaten as a delicacy.
Tērā atu anō ētahi kai a te Māori, te kōuka, te pikopiko, te tuna, te kōtero, te taro - kāore aku kupu mō ēnei - engari me whakahua ake pea e au te kānga wai, te kānga kōpiro (TKO 30/6/1919:7). / There are other foods of the Māori, cabbage tree shoots, fern shoots, eel, fermented potatoes and taro - I have nothing to say about these - but perhaps I should mention corn steeped in water, fermented maize.
kiri wai
1. (noun) inner skin.
See also kiriwai
2. (noun) dipstick, idiot, forgetful person - a colloquialism used to refer to someone flaky.
He māhunga wai, he wareware ki ngā mea katoa (HJ 2017:58). / A forgetful person, she forgets everything.
mate wai
1. (verb) to be thirsty.
See also matewai
pā wai
1. (noun) dam.
I te tekau tau atu i 1970, ka parea ngā wai e rere iho ana i Tongariro ki te awa o Whanganui, kia rere kē ki ngā pā wai o Tongariro (Te Ara 2011). / In the 1970s the water flowing from Mount Tongariro into the Whanganui River was diverted to flow instead to the dams of Tongariro.
