kahika
1. (noun) white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - a tall coniferous tree of mainly swampy ground, the leaves are scale-like and soft to touch.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
See also kahikatea
2. (noun) ancestor.
Ka mene ngā mōhio o ia waka, o ia waka, ka whiriwhiri ai i tētahi o koutou hei karaka tuhituhi, ā ka oti tērā, hei reira ka kauhau ai koutou i ngā kōrero mai rā anō i a Pō tuatahi, ā tae noa ki te tuatangata, ā ki ngā atua, ā ki ngā mea katoa i mōhiotia e ngā kahika, e ngā tūpuna (TW 10/8/1878:395). / The knowledgeable people of each canoe area should gather and select one of you to act as scribe, and when that's done that you talk over all the knowledge of the past, even from the time of the first Pō right until there was man and the atua, and everything that was known by the ancestors.
3. (noun) chief, leader.
I te tau 1945, ka whakataetae a Kāponga Erueti hei takawaenga mō te Rōpū Reipa ki a Matiu Rātana mō te rohe pōti Māori o Te Tai Hauāuru, engari he kahika tū kotahi a Kāponga (TTR 1998:55). / In 1945 Kāponga Erueti stood against Matiu Rātana for Western Māori as an independent Labour candidate, but that was the only time Kāponga stood as a leader.
Synonyms: manu taupua, kaitaki, kaitātaki, kaiārahi, kākākura, pouwhenua, kaiwhakataki, wheao, tumuaki, tumu whakarae, kaiarataki, kaikākāriki, ngārahu, ngārahu, tētēkura, uru, kaihautū, kaitakitaki, kaingārahu, manukura, kaiwhakanekeneke, tātāriki, tātāriki, amokapua, amokapua, amokura, amokura, ariki, ariki, ihorei, tātarariki, poutoko, poutoko, whakataka, whakataka, amorangi, amorangi, hautū, hautū
