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whakahei

1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to go to meet, welcome, fulfil, satisfy (an obligation).

Nō tōna taenga atu ki reira, ka haere mai ngā Pākehā o taua kāinga ki te whakahei i a ia (TA 22/5/1883:4). / When he arrived there the Pākehā people of that village came to welcome him.

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2. (verb) to grant (a request).


3. (verb) (-a) to satisfy (an obligation).

Kāti, ka whakaheia e au tō whakapekanga mai i a au, ina, i inu nei i te tahā wai (W 1971:44). / Well, I satisfied your invitation to stop off because I drank from your flagon of water.

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4. (modifier) welcoming.

Ko tōna whitu rau tāngata pea i hui mai i runga i te reo whakahei o te hui (HM 1/1995:2). / Approximately seven hundred people gathered on the invitation welcoming them to the conference.

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