rerenga kōrero
1. (noun) sentence, phrase, saying.
Ka whakapono ētahi iwi Māori, ko te putanga o Puanga kē te tohu ki te tau hōu a te Māori, kāpā ko Matariki. Koirā te takenga o te rerenga kōrero ‘Puanga kai rau’, mō te nui o te kai i tēnei wā o te tau (Te Ara 2013). / Some Māori tribes believed that it was the rising of the star Rigel which heralded the Māori new year, not Matariki. Hence the saying: ‘Puanga of a hundred foods' for the abundance of food at this time of the year.
Synonyms: rerenga kupu, whiu tārewa, whakawhiu, whiu, rerenga, whiu, kīanga, kī, pepeha, kupu, whakapepeha, kīnga, tūātau
