uta
1. (location) the shore, ashore, land (from a sea or water perspective), inland (from a coastal perspective), interior (of a country or island) - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 15-16;)