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manea

1. (verb) to be pleasing.

E manea ana ka kitea atu kai te kaha koe ki te mahi (Ng 1993:343). / It is pleasing to see you are working hard (Ng 1993:343).

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Synonyms: reka, āhumehume


2. (adjective) be clever.


3. (noun) the hau of the human footprint - in walking, a person leaves a certain amount of this hau in every footprint he makes. Anyone having evil designs on him will gather up the earth on which the footprint is impressed, and bearing it to the sacred whata puaroa, he will use it as a medium through which to injure that person by mākutu.

Ko te ariā o te wairua, ko ngā makawe, ko tōna mauri hoki tērā. Kātahi ka naomia ko te manea. Ko tōna ariātanga ko te iwi tonu (JPS 1899:49). / The hair was the semblance of the 'wairua', that being his mauri. He then took the 'manea', in the form of the bone itself.

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