tuhene
1. (verb) (-tia) to be too often, overmuch, in surplus, excessive.
Kia whā tekau ana whakapānga ki a ia, kaua e maha ake: he mea hoki, ki te tuhene, ā ka maha atu i ēnei ngā whakapānga, nā ka iti tōu teina ki tāu titiro (PT Tiuteronomi 25:3). / Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
2. (modifier) surplus, excess.
Nā te whakaaro i puakina e te kōmihana a Taute rāua ko Ngata i 1907–08 kia hokona ngā whenua tuhene, ka kaha kē ake te pukuriri o ngā tuhituhinga a Rēweti (TTR 1996:68). / With the recommendation of the Stout–Ngata commission in 1907–8 that surplus Māori land should be sold, Reweti's writings became even more impassioned.
3. (noun) surplus, excess, extra, surfeit.
Nā me tatau e ia ngā tau i hokona ai, ā ka whakahoki i te tuhene ki te tangata i hokona atu ai (PT Rewitikuha 25:27). / Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it.
