2. (loan) (modifier) French.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 70;)
E kīia ana nō te tau 1603 i tīmataria ai te mahi o tēnei patu, o te pēneti, ā nā ngā iwi Wīwī i kite te mahi o taua patu (TW 23/11/1878:586). / It is said that the use of the weapon, the bayonet, started in the year 1603 and it was the French who invented that weapon.
3. (loan) (noun) French, Frenchman.
Mehemea, he Wīwī rānei, he Tiamana rānei te Kāwanatanga e tū nei, e kore rawa a ia, a Tawiti, e tautoko i ā rātou kupu (TW 26/10/1878:531). / If the government now in office were Frenchmen or Germans he, Tawiti, would not uphold what they had to say.
