whakaputu
1. (verb) (-a,-ria,-tia) to lie in a heap, lie one upon another, pile up, stack.
Kātahi ka kohikohia ngā kōhatu nei ka whakaputu haeretia kia āhua teitei mai i tētahi taha o te awa ki waenganui, ka waiho (HP 1991:15). / Then these rocks were collected and stacked up until they were quite high from one side of the river to the middle, and then left.
Synonyms: tōhīhī, whakapipi, whakatahua, tōhī, whakarae, whakaahu, kāuki, tāwheta, tāwhetawheta, pīhangaiti, haipū, pūkai, pū, haupū, pūranga, pūkei, putu, tihi, kāika, pūhangaiti, kāike
2. (verb) (-a,-ria,-tia) to deposit, store, save (money, etc.).
Ko ngā moni kua kohia me whakaputu ki te pēke, ā ko te itarete kia £20 pea hei kawe i te tamaiti mōhio ki Te Aute (TP 8/1900:3). / The money that has been collected should be deposited in the bank, and the interest, perhaps £20, should be used to send an intelligent child to Te Aute.
Synonyms: kauika, whakaahu, whakapū, taipū, pūkainga, tōhīanga, purawhetū, whakarae, kōputu, pūhanga, pūkei, putunga, whakarauika, whakapipi, whārona, pūkai, whakaputunga, haupū
3. (modifier) piling up, storing, saving, raising.
Āwhina ana ia i te mahi whakaputu moni mō te Pakanga Tuarua o Te Ao, whakahaere rā i ngā mahi whakaaturanga hīkoi (TTR 2000:199). / She helped with fund-raising for the Second World War, organising marching exhibitions.
Synonyms: whakarauora, whakatūtū, whakatupu, hīanga, hutinga, huti, whakatipu, whakapiki, whakareinga
4. (noun) storing, saving, depositing, archiving.
Kua tirotirohia te waihanga o te tangata hei take ako i ngā tākuta. Engari ko tōna taha e kīia nei he taonga nō te ao, tōna tipunga mai, noho ā-whānau, noho ā-hapū, noho ā-iwi, noho ā-iwi-nunui, ā rātou nei mahi e tohunga ai rātou, te whanaungatanga o tētahi iwi ki tētahi iwi, te whakarōpū i ngā iwi o te ao, te tīmatanga mai o te noho pā o te tangata, te tīmatanga mai o te mātauranga ki te tuhituhi, me te whakaputu kōrero (TTT 1/8/1925:273). / Human physiology has been studied in order to instruct doctors. But in conjunction with that are the studies of the treasures of the world, human development, how families, subtribes, tribes and nations live, their development of skills, intertribal relationships, groupings of the peoples of the world, the beginning of people living in fortified places, the origins of writing, and the archiving of knowledge.
