moe tokomaha
1. (verb) to practise polygamy - having more than one wife or husband.
Kāti e mau tonu ana taua tikanga i nāianei, mehemea ka moe tokomaha te tangata i te wāhine, e tāhae ana ia i ngā wāhine a ētahi atu tāngata (TPH 15/5/1905:4). / Well, that custom is still being practised now, and if a man has many wives he is stealing the wives of other men.
2. (noun) polygamy.
E kī ana a Paora Hopere ko te take i whakaaetia ai e te Atua te moe tokomaha i te wahine he torutoru nō ngā tāne he tokomaha rawa nō ngā wāhine (TP 6/1905:5). / Paora Hopere is saying that the reason that God agreed to polygamy is because there were few men and many more women.
