māihi
1. (verb) to be anxious, uneasy, worried, apprehensive.
See also māharahara
2. (noun) anxiety, uneasiness, worry, apprehension.
Kotahi tō tangata i kai i te wharewhare, rere te māihi, rere ki tērā tangata (NP 2001:247). / It is your person who eats singly in a shelter to whom anxiety comes (NP 2001:247). (A whakataukī suggesting that one who shuns the company of others when eating will become anxious.)
See also māharahara