wea
1. (loan) (verb) (-ina,-ngia) to survey.
Koia tēnei te kupu hei tuku atu māu, ko ngā rūri whenua a te tangata kotahi, tokorua rānei, e rūri ana i roto i ngā rā o te Kāwanatanga hou e tū nei, he tāhae hoki taua tū mahi nā, te mea tika mā te tokomaha e mea kia weaina te whenua (TW 16/11/1878:577). / This is what you should publish, that surveys instigated by one or two people that are carried out in the days when the new Government is in place, are plain theft, and the right way is for the majority to say that the land should be surveyed.
2. (loan) (noun) surveyor.
Koia tēnei te kupu, ko te wea a te Komiti koia tēnei i raro iho nei i te mana o te iwi nui, koia nā te kupu e tangihia nā te ngākau, he wea Pākehā kāore i tika, he wea Māori kia ora (TW 16/11/1878:576). / This is what we say, that the Committee’s surveyor is under the authority of the whole tribe, and it is distressing to have to say that a Pākehā surveyor was not appropriate whereas a Māori surveyor would be fine.
3. (loan) (noun) survey.
Kua tae ngā Māori o ētahi wāhi o Taupō ki Ōpepe ki te whakamutu te rūri a Kāpene Tāna, te taenga atu hutihuti ana ngā pou o te wea, me ngā teihana kāore i whakaaetia kia whakatūria (TW 24/11/1877:460). / Māori from various parts of Taupō have arrived at Ōpepe to stop Captain Turner’s survey, and on arriving pulled out the survey pegs and the stations whose erection had not been agreed to.
Hāwea, Wiha Mohi Penetito
1. (personal name) (?-2009) Ngāti Awa. A fluent speaker, translator and promoter of Māori language, Wiha was a teacher for 15 years at pioneering Huntly immersion school Te Wharekura o Rākaumangamanga. She was a contributor to the Māori language dictionary, He Pātaka Kupu and a lead translator on the Māori Google project. More recently she was a language coach on Vincent Ward's film Rain of the Children, which was co-produced by her husband Tainui Stephens. Also known as Wiha Te Raki Hāwea.
