riro
1. (verb) to be gone, departed, set out.
Hoki rawa mai ki te puta o tōna tuna, mau ana ko te hāwareware kau anake, kua riro te tuna (W 1971:43). / When finally returning to the eel's hole, all that could be caught was the slime, the eel had gone.
Synonyms: whakatikatika, whakatika, tīeke
2. (stative) be taken, awarded, won.
Kua tae te whakaatu ki a Tākuta Te Rangihīroa kua riro i a ia te paraihe a te Kura Nui o Ōtākou mō tana pukapuka i tuhituhia ai mō ngā mahi ā-ringa a te iwi Māori inamata (TTT 31/8/1921:7). / Notification has reached Dr Buck that he has won Otago University's award for his article written about the traditional Māori crafts.
3. (stative) be got, acquired, obtained, earned.
I ngā tau e waru i riro i a Tame Pāna i runga i āna mahi motomoto e £40, 000 (TP 1/1909:9). / In eight years Tommy Burns earned £40, 000 from his boxing activities.
Synonyms: kaitaonga
4. (stative) be inherited.
Ka mate te matua whāngai, e riro rānei te whenua o te tūpāpaku i te tamaiti whāngai? (TPH 30/8/1902:2). / When the foster parent dies, is the land of the deceased inherited by the foster child?
5. (stative) it was left to - especially when followed by māku, māu, māna, mā māua, mā rātou etc and nāku, nāu, nāna, nā māua, nā rātou etc.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 62-63;)
Ka riro māku te poroporoaki. / It was left to me to do the farewell speech.
Ahakoa kāore anō ia kia takatū noa, i riro nāna tonu ia i ako ki ngā tikanga o te Hāhi, taringa whakarongo noa ai ki tana pāpā, haere rānei ki ngā rā i ngā wāhi e kaha ana te mau o te whakapono o te Hāhi Ringatū (TTR 1998:26). / Although he was unprepared, he taught himself the practices of the Church by just listening to his father or by attending the church days at the places where the Ringatū Church was strong.
6. (modifier) at the extreme - follows locatives as an intensifier, e.g. runga, raro.
Ehara au i te hōkioi - hore rawa. E rere ana tēnā manu ki runga riro, mahue noa iho te kapua. Ko au ia, e rere kūpapa ana i te mata o te whenua (TPM 2/2/1863:2). / I am not the hōkio. That bird flies way up high, leaving behind even the clouds. But as for me, I fly low over the face of the earth.
Ko te mata o taua wai mārama kehokeho, otirā kei raro riro te takere o taua kōpua, e kore e tatū te aho (MM.TKM 27/1/1853:4). / The surface of that water is absolutely clear, but a line would never reach right down to the bottom of that deep pool.
Ko ētahi o ngā hē o Poi Hākena, ko te awa kore hei hoenga mai mō ngā kai, ā, he tawhiti nō ngā māra kei te mano whenua i uta riro (MM.TKM 27/11/1856:3). / Some of the problems of Sydney are the lack of rivers to transport produce and the remoteness of gardens in the heartland a long way inland.
