pūtake
1. (verb) (-tia) to originate.
Ehara i te mea i mate te nuinga o te tāngata i te rū tonu, engari i ōna mate o muri iho i pūtaketia mai e te rū (TWMNT 21/9/1875:213). / It was not as if the majority of the people died from the earthquake itself, but from the diseases afterwards that were caused by the earthquake.
2. (noun) cause, reason, origin, source.
I whakaatu anō ia i te āhua o te taipō pīwa, te pūtake mai me te rongoā (TP 5/1901:11). / He gave instruction on the nature of typhoid fever, the origin and the cure.
Synonyms: mea, tikanga, takunetanga, pūnga, toi, pū, ahunga, orokohanga, mātāwai, ūkaipō, pī, orokohanganga, take, kunenga, takenga
3. (noun) base, root.
Kua roa ka maha haere ngā kōpurepure, nāwai ā, ka heke whakararo ki te pūtake o te taewa, ā, he maroke te tukunga iho (TP 3/1905:5). / After a time the number of blotches increases and after a while descends to the base of the potato plant, and drying out is the result.
4. (noun) ancestor, progenitor.
Ko te pūtake mai o tēnei tipuna o Whata, ko Pouheni. He tamaiti a Pouheni nā Paikea (JPS 1906:61). / The progenitor of this ancestor, Whata, was Pouheni. Pouheni was a child of Paikea.
Synonyms: uretū
5. (noun) base, root (of a number).
Ko te pūtake te tau e hīkina ana ki tētahi pū (TRP 2010:212). / The root is the number that is being raised to a power (TRP 2010:212).
6. (noun) base (of a number system).
Ko te pūtake te pānga kei waenganui i ngā mati uara tū o tētahi pūnaha tau. Koia hoki hei whakatau i te maha o ngā tohutau o te pūnaha tau (TRP 2010:213). / The base is the relationship between the place value digits of a number system. It also determines the number of numerals the number system has (TRP 2010:213).
7. (noun) base (of a geometrical figure).
