roherohe
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to mark off by a boundary, separate, subdivide.
Heoti, kua tīmata i nāianei te whakaeke mai a te Pākehā ki te noho, ā, kua tīmata anō hoki ngā Māori whiwhi taitara herekore ki te tono kia roherohea aua taitara kia mau anake ai ko te ingoa kotahi ki tēnaka, ki tēnaka rohenga, kia taea ai te hoko (TTR 1994:22). / However, now the Pākehā were beginning to arrive to settle, and Māori with freehold titles had also begun seeking partition of their communal tenure into individual titles for each boundary so that they were able to sell.
Synonyms: nahenahe, kōwaewae, kōwae, tokorau, māhiti, tauwehe, tauārai, tohi, toritori, momotu, motu, motuhake, wae, wehewehe, wehe, whakatāuke, whakawehewehe, tiriwā, īheuheu, tīwae, tūhāhā, heu, ihi, tuakoi, wawae, whakawehe, kōwai, whakapirara, tāuke, tāwae, tāwaewae, totohi, tūtahi
2. (noun) marking boundaries, apportioning, dividing.
Mehemea ka tae mai ki te āhua o te kārawarawara whenua, o te roherohe whenua, ko te whakapapa anō tētahi o ngā huarahi e whakatakotoria ai tērā wāhi i tērā kokonga o te whenua nei ki a Mea, ko tēnei ki a Mea (Milroy 2015). / If we come to the nature of apportioning land, subdivision, it is whakapapa that is one of the ways of setting down that that corner of land goes to so-and-so, and this to so-and-so.
