rongonga
1. (noun) hearing.
Nō te rongonga o te matua o Wawara i te take o te haere atu a Manu-tongātea me tana ope, ko te kōrerotanga atu ki tana tamāhine me moe ia i a Manu-tongātea hei tāne māna (NIT 1995:97). / When wawara's father heard why Manu-tongātea and his party had come he told his daughter that she should marry him.