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meingatia

1. (stative) to be done, dealt with (a passive of mea).

Ka mutu ngā kōrero a Kupe ki te tamaiti, ki a Toka-akuaku, ka mea atu a Toka-akuaku ki a Kupe, “E mara, he aha te take e meingatia ai kia tae rawa ki ngā rangi ngahuru mā whā, ka mahi ai anō tāua i ngā mahi e kōrero nei koe?” (JPS 1957:222). / When Kupe's instructions to the child, Toka-akuaku, ended, Toka-akuaku said to Kupe, “Oh friend, what is the reason for waiting until the ‘fourteenth days’ before you and I work again on the tasks of which you have spoken?”

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