tieki
1. (verb) (-na) to guard, look after.
Ngā tū āhua tāngata katoa ka kitea ki reira: ngā kīngi o tāwāhi i roto i ō rātou kākahu korōria, me ngā hōia tieki anō i a rātou; ngā piriniha, ngā tiuka, ngā mākuihi, ngā rōre me ērā atu karangatanga ariki o te iwi Pākehā (TP 6/1911:4). / All types of people were seen there: the kings of overseas in their amazing clothes and the soldiers guarding them; the princes, dukes, marquesses, lords and those other aristocrats of the Pākehā people.
