tūhonohono
1. (verb) (-a) to join.
Ko tētahi mahi nui a Ngāti Porou i ēnei rā ko te whakaara waea kōrero, arā terepōno, kei te tūhonohonoa ngā kāinga katoa o Ngāti Porou e te waea, i Tawhiti ki Taumata-a-Apanui (TP 4/1906:9). / Important work for Ngāti Porou these days is erecting telephone wires, joining all the Ngāti Porou settlements from Tawhiti to Taumata-a-Apanui.
Synonyms: tāpiri, whakauru, pāhekoheko, hiki, tūhoto, uru, whakamoemoe, whakatapoko, kuhukuhu, honohono, pūtahi, tūhono, hono, whakakapiti, porotūtaki, porotūtataki, uhono, haumi
2. (modifier) compact, linking.
Whakairohia ana ngā hua o tēnei hui ki te whatumanawa o Erueti, ka puta nei ngā kōrero tūhonohono i ngā iwi i runga i ngā whakamoenga, i ngā pākūhā pērā i a Tūrongo rāua ko Māhinārangi i te rau tau tekau mā whitu, hua iho ana ngā tātai uri i taua moenga (TTR 1998:21). / The effects of this meeting were etched in Edward's mind, focusing as it did on inter-tribal marriages such as that of Tūrongo and Māhinārangi in the seventeenth century and the important genealogical lines deriving from that marriage.
Synonyms: hono
