1. (personal noun) moon on the twenty-sixth night (sometimes the twenty-seventh night) of the lunar month - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the twelfth night of the lunar month. A productive day on both land and sea .
Ko ēnei mea katoa e kōrero ana mō te āhua o Ōtāne (WT 2013:37). / All these things refer to the nature of Ōtāne (the twelfth night after the full moon).
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