waenga
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - 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. Variation of waenganui.
E hoa mā, tēnei tāku honae hōkeke, he mea kohikohi nāku nō waenga i ngā kōtai i ngā pareparenga o te ngutuawa o Kawaora (TJ 9/11/1899:15). / Friends, this is my small basket of ear fungus which I collected amongst the alluvial soils on the banks of the Kawaroa estuary.
Synonyms: waenganui, waengarahi, kōpū
2. (location) garden - when no noun is expressed.
Tērā te koroheke rā kua tae ki waenga e ngaki ana. / There was the elderly man who had arrived to weed the garden.
