1. (numeral) how many? how long? - variation of hia.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 5, 16, 63;)

1. A passive ending.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85;)

1. (noun) passive suffix, passive ending - endings added to a verb that is used when the subject undergoes the action of the verb. In Māori, verbs used in the passive usually take a passive ending. The passive endings are: -tia, -hia, -ngia, -a, -ia, -ina, -kia, -mia, -na, -nga, -ria, -whia, -whina, -kina.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85; Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 88;)

1. (noun) māmāngi, tree coprosma, Coprosma arborea - a tree up to 10 m tall found from North Cape to Kāwhia in forests and forest margins. Densely branched with small, light green, rounded leaves.

1. (personal noun) tribal group of the area between Pirongia mountain and Kāwhia Harbour.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 117;)

1. (personal noun) tribal group of the Huntly and Kāwhia areas.

(Te Pihinga Teachers' Manual (Ed. 2): 117;)

1. (personal noun) tribal group south of Kāwhia, the Kapiti-Ōtaki area and parts of the northern South Island. A Tainui tribal group, some of whom moved with Te Rauparaha to the Kapiti coast area.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89, 113; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 148-166;)

1. (personal name) (?-1855) Ngāti Toa; leader and warrior who fought beside his uncle, Te Rauparaha, in the battles during and after the migration from Kāwhia to the central North Island.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 142-160;)

1. (personal name) (?-1849) Ngāti Toa; leader who took his tribe from defeat at Kāwhia to the conquest of new territories in central Aotearoa/New Zealand, establishing his headquarters on Kapiti Island. In this illustration, Te Rauparaha is seated.

(Te Kākano Study Guide (Ed. 1): 72-74; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 148-167;)

1. (noun) tainui, Pomaderris apetala - an erect, many-branched shrub found in a few coastal localities from Kāwhia to Mōkau. Grows to about 5 m with ascending branches and has leaves with a wrinkled upper surface and hairy lower surface with prominent raised veins. Flowers usually in terminal clusters.

1. (personal name) (?-1865-73?) Ngāti Toa; leader and waiata composer who moved south from Kāwhia to the Kapiti coast with Te Rauparaha. Te Rangihaeata was her brother and her son was Mātene Te Whiwhi.

1. (personal name) (?-1839) Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa; leader, sister of Te Rauparaha and mother of Te Rangihaeata and Rangi Topeora. Moved south from Kāwhia to the Kapiti area with her tribes.

1. (noun) passive verb - a word that is used when the subject undergoes the action of the verb. In Māori, verbs used in the passive usually take a passive ending. The passive endings are: -tia, -hia, -ngia, -a, -ia, -ina, -kia, -mia, -na, -nga, -ria, -whia, -whina, -kina.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85; Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 88;)

1. (noun) interrogative, question word - in Māori these words each belong to one of the different types of bases,  e.g. aha, pēhea, āhea, wai, hea, hia, whia, nahea, tēhea.

1. (noun) passive suffix, passive ending - endings added to a verb that is used when the subject undergoes the action of the verb. In Māori, verbs used in the passive usually take a passive ending. The passive endings are: -tia, -hia, -ngia, -a, -ia, -ina, -kia, -mia, -na, -nga, -ria, -whia, -whina, -kina.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85; Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 88;)

1. (noun) passive verb - a word that is used when the subject undergoes the action of the verb. In Māori, verbs used in the passive usually take a passive ending. The passive endings are: -tia, -hia, -ngia, -a, -ia, -ina, -kia, -mia, -na, -nga, -ria, -whia, -whina, -kina.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85;)

1. (location) Albatross Point - the major headland on the coast south west of Kāwhia Harbour.

1. (noun) gumdiggers' soap, golden Tainui, kūmarahou, Pomaderris kumeraho - a native shrub with alternating, blue-green leaves on top and undersides pale with protruding veins. Flowers are creamy yellow in large, fluffy clusters. The whole plant is covered in a soft mat of hair. Found north of Bay of Plenty and Kāwhia.