whakaea
1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to avenge, bring to fruition, realise (an ambition, etc.).
I tū tētehi parekura nui whakaharahara noa atu mō tēnei mōkai; i tino mate rawa atu ngā uri o Tū-a-Rotorua i ngā uri o Tama-te-kapua; nā ana uri anō i whakaea te matenga o ngā uri o Tū-a-Rotorua (JPS 1909:205). / A great battle was fought on account of this pet; and the descendants of Tū-a-Rotorua were heavily defeated by the descendants of Tama-te-kapua, and it was his descendants also who avenged the defeat of the descendants of Tū-a-Rotorua.
2. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to pay for, recompense, repay.
Tino kore nei e taea e te kupu te whakaea ngā manaaki i uhia mai ki runga i te pahī a te Taura Whiri (HM 4/1994:3). / Words can never repay the hospitality bestowed on the Māori Language Commission's party.
3. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to settle, discharge (a debt).
Me aro te Kāwanatanga ki te hanga huarahi hei whakaea i ngā nawe (RT 2013:106). / The Government should consider building a road to settle the grievances.
Synonyms: pūwhenua, noho, nohonoho, whakanoho, whakatatū, whakatau, whakamāhaki, whakataiwhenua, tatū, tau
4. (verb) to come to land, landing up, make landfall.
Ka pūhia haeretia e te hau, rawaki rawa ake te hau, ka aua atu ki te moana tuauri rere ai; ka āpitia e te kohu au moana, ka oti atu ki te moana tere ai, whakaea rawa atu ko Rangiātea (JPS 1928:178). / They were blown away by the wind, and when the wind finally subsided they were sailing far out in the open ocean, and when in addition a sea-mist was encountered, they ended up drifting on the open sea, eventually landing up at Rangiātea.
5. (verb) to be prominent.
He iwi rerekē atu i te Māori te whakatipu, arā he iwi roroa te tū o te tangata, he akaaka te āhua o te tū, he nunui ngā iwi, he uru tōtika, he mārō ngā huruhuru, he paraha te kanohi, he wharewhare ngā tukemata, he mata ngārara ngā whatu, he paruhi te ihu, ko te pongare anake o te ihu i whakaea (JPS 1928:187). / They were a people differing from the Māori in physique, that is to say, a tall, slim-built people, having big bones, straight and hard hair, flat faces, over-hanging eyebrows, restless eyes, and flat noses where only the nostrils of the nose appeared.
Synonyms: koutu, koure, whakarae, whakahī, kōhure, hōhō, ahurei, tutū, matararahi, tāpua
6. (verb) to appear above the surface, come up for air, surface for air.
Ka oma mai Wheke-a-Muturangi; whakaea rawa mai te manawa (M 2007:6). / Te Wheke-a-Muturangi fled here, surfacing for air.
7. (verb) to draw breath, breathe.
Ko te uma o te kōtiro e ka whakaea, ānō he hone moana āio i te waru e ūkura ana hoki i te tōanga o te rā, ka rite ki te kiri o tuawahine (NM 1928:58). / The girl's breast, oh when she breathed it was like the calm ocean swell in the eighth month (January) and the glowing of the setting of the sun was like the skin of our heroine.
