pātengi
1. (noun) storehouse, storage, collection - originally a word for a storehouse or pit for kūmara.
I ngā rā o mua mā te tāne rawa e whakanohonoho ngā kūmara ki te pātengi, ko ngā wāhine he kawe atu i ngā kūmara ki a ia (PK 2008:613). / In former times it was for the man to place the kūmara in the storehouse and the women would convey the kūmara to him.
See also pātengi raraunga