2. (noun) glimmer of light.
Ehara tāku i te ui makihoi, whakateka rānei, engari he tino whakamatemate kē nei nōku kia tau mai he māramatanga ki a au, kia paku hīnātore noa mai rānei (HM 3/1995). / Mine is not a rhetorical question, or a fabrication, but a real concern of mine to obtain some enlightenment, or even a glimmer of light.
3. (noun) enlightened or wise person, sage.
He aituā, engari kua poropititia e ētahi o ngā hīnātore, ka pau i te ahi i taua wā (HP 1991:6). / It was a disaster but it had been prophesied by some of the wise men that it would be destroyed by fire at that time.
4. (modifier) be phosphorescent, luminescent.
5. (noun) phosphorescence, phosphorus.
Tētahi mahi anō āna i ngā pō, he ūkuikui i ana ringa ki ngā māti o ērā wā, ka piri mai te hīnātore, ka pīataata katoa ana ringa - hei whakarite mō te Atua (TTR 1990:218). / One of the things he did at night was to rub his hands with the matches of those times and phosphorus would stick to them and his hands would glow - to represent God.
Synonyms: porotītīwai, pūtūtaewhetū