tuatangata
1. (personal noun) person, fellow - sometimes used like a person's name.
Kīhai i roa ka rongo rāua i te ope wāhine rā e haere ana mai, ka tae mai ki te wai ki te kaukau ka tiro atu a tuatangata i te tipu o ngā wāhine rā (JPS 1928:364). / It wasn't long before they heard the company of women approaching. When they came to the stream to bathe, then our man noted the fine figures of those women.
Synonyms: kōhī, kiri, tinana, tuakiri, tangata, tawhiti, whaiaro, kōiwi
2. (noun) person, fellow, man.
Ka mene ngā mōhio o ia waka, o ia waka, ka whiriwhiri ai i tētahi o koutou hei karaka tuhituhi, ā ka oti tērā, hei reira ka kauhau ai koutou i ngā kōrero mai rā anō i a Pō tuatahi, ā tae noa ki te tuatangata, ā ki ngā atua, ā ki ngā mea katoa i mōhiotia e ngā kahika, e ngā tūpuna (TW 10/8/1878:395). / The knowledgeable people of each canoe area should gather and select one of you to act as scribe, and when that's done that you talk over all the knowledge of the past, even from the time of the first Pō right until there was man and the atua, and everything that was known by the ancestors.
