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Revenge: A Love Tale of the Mount Eden Tribe

Appendix A: Glossary

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Appendix A: Glossary

aheiha: certainly, 163.

ahu: to heap up, 76.

ahuahu: mounds for kumara plants, 33.

aitua: omen, 81.

aka: climbing plant.

ariki: head or first-born chief, 111.

atua: god, 16.

auwahine; sister-in-law, 177.

awanganga: undecided, 95.

e moe: sleep on! 8.

haere ra: farewell! 17.

haere taua: let us depart, 41.

hahunga: the disinterring of the bones of the dead before they are placed in their final resting place, 230.

haka: dance; song accompanying a dance, 4.

hangi: cooking oven, 75.

hani: carved wooden weapon, used principally by chiefs, 104.

hapu: sub-tribe or clan, 6.

hara: bent stick indicating the place where a chief has met his death, 170.

hari: song which accompanies a dance, 102.

hau: offering, 169.

Haumia : personification of the edible bracken rhizome, 182.

hei: neck-ornament, 36.

hika: kindle fire by friction, 169.

hinau: a tree, 197.

hoahoa: spouse; female companion, 19.

hongi: nose pressing—a salutation, 19.

hopohopo: fearful, 95.

Hotu-nui : A Chief of the Tainui canoe, 3.

Hotu-roa : Captain of the Tainui canoe, 121:273.

hou: a tree, 197.

hue: gourd, 113.

hui: twitch, 190.

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huia: bird, 32. huke: dig up, 172.

inanga: whitebait, 268. ipu: calabash, 171.

kaeaea: sparrow-hawk, 237.

kahu-kiwi; a cape covered with feathers of the kiwi, 265.

kai; food, 153.

kainga: village, 202.

kaitaka: a fine mat, 33.

kaka: a bird, 140.

(Kaka kereru), 198.

(Kaka korako), 197.

(Kaka kura), 198.

(Kaka pipiwharauroa) , 198.

kakaho: stalk of the reed grass, 94.

kakarauri: evening shadows, 153.

kanae: mullet, 28.

kanikani: dance, 4.

kao: kumara, grated, cooked and dried, 267.

kapa: row or rank, 91.

kapara: torch, 161.

karaka: tree, and berry, 51.

karakia; incantation, 2.

karamu: shrub, 9.

karearea; bush hawk, 122.

karetu: a sweet-scented grass, 61.

karoro: seagull, 149.

kauati and hika: fire-making apparatus, 169.

kauhoa: litter, 189.

kaupapa: medium, 167.

kauri; tree, 237.

kauta: cooking shed, 159.

kawa: a sapling, used in certain ceremonies, 76.

kawakawa: shrub, 41

kawe: carry, 210.

kiekie: a climbing plant, 169.

kinaki: relish, 26.

kiwi: a wingless bird, 32.

ko: digging implement, 138.

kohoperoa: long-tailed cuckoo, 198.

koka: a rough cloak of undressed flax, 51.

kokopu: fresh-water fish.

kokowai: red ochre, 40.

kono: small basket for cooked food, 172.

kopapa: a small canoe, 133.

kopere, kopere taua: hasten, hasten all, 160.

kopere tatou: we dart away, 251.

korakorako: fairy, 70.

korimako: bellbird, 122.

koroi: white pine, 162.

korokio: a shrub, 189.

kuaka: godwit, 149.

kumara: sweet potato, 1.

Kupe: famous voyager, 198.

kurukuru: greenstone ornament, 208.

Mahuika : the goddess of fire, 184.

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mako: shark.

shark's tooth, 66.

makutu; bewitch, 148.

mana: prestige; authority, 149.

manuka: "tea-tree" shrub, 220.

mora: ground under cultivation, 124.

marae: communal meeting place, 5.

maro: kilt, 8.

Maru : god of war, 143.

matai: tree, 162.

Matariki : the Pleiades, 185.

matira: fish with a rod, 194.

mere: weapon, 12.

mere pounamu: greenstone weapon, 33.

miro: tree, 197.

moa: heap or raised bed.

moho-ao: wild bush-man, 157.

mokau: plain, not tattooed, 103.

tnoko: tattoo, 5.

mokoroa: a grub, 197.

muka: flax fibre, 141.

ngaio: a tree, 120.

ngeri: a rough cloak, 110.

nani: wild cabbage, or turnip, 16.

nikau: New Zealand palm, 210.

niti: darts, 116.

niu: small sticks used in divination, 275.

noa: free from tapu, 101.

nukarau: deceit, 114.

ohu: band of volunteer workers, 137.

pa: fortified village, 1.

pae: horizon, 160.

Paerau : a place in the underworld, 88.

pahuhu: slip off, 188.

pakewa: to make a mistake in speech, 25.

pakipaki: decoy hunt, 190.

pakuha: betrothal or bridal feast, 98.

panahi: a small red-skinned kumara, 187.

Pani: god of good, particularly of the kumara, 191.

paoi: wooden beater, 159.

papa huia: carved box to hold huia feathers, 264.

papaki: decoy, 188.

pare koukou: method of hair-dressing, 66.

paro: a small food basket, 35.

pataka: storehouse, 25.

pipiwharauroa: the shining cuckoo, 187.

Po, Te: the Spirit-world, 22.

pohoi: ear ornaments of feathers, 266.

pohue: an edible creeping plant, 140.

pohutukazva: a tree, 28.

pot: a ball game, 116.

pokai: flock, 202.

poki: cover over, 159.

ponga: tree fern, 212.

poporo: a plant, 70.

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porangi: mad; delirious, 167.

porta: bone ring, 221.

poroaki: leave instructions on departing, 72.

porotawa: a fungus, 187.

potae taua: widow's chaplet of mourning, 78.

potikete: small crabs, 141.

pou tokomanawa: centre support of the whare, 19.

powhiri: wave; welcome, 157.

puhi: betrothed, 16. An object set up for the purposes of witchcraft, 227.

pukapuka: a shrub, 8.

pukatea: a tree, 198.

pukorero: orator; well-informed, 155.

puriri: a tree, 197.

pu-tara: shell trumpet, 32.

rakaunui: full moon; 16th, 17th or 18th day of the month, 117.

raki: dry, 16.

Rangi: the Sky Father, 75.

rango: blowfly, 143.

rau: leaf, 210.

raupo: reed, bulrush, 263.

Reinga: the Spirit-land, 52.

rimu: a tree, 162.

riroriro: the grey warbler, 23.

riu: bilge of a canoe, 192.

roi: fern-root, 159.

Rona : man or woman, in the moon, 154; 199.

Rongo: god of peace and of agriculture, 182.

rua: store pit, 135.

runanga: council; assembly, 158.

tutu: owl, 14.

taiaha kura: a long wooden weapon ornamented with red feathers, 265.

Tamatea-pokai-whenua: Captain of the Taki-tumu canoe, 76.

tamure: fish; snapper, 141.

Tane: god of nature, 181.

tanekaha: a tree, 198.

Tangaroa : the sea god, 37.

tangi: wake; mourning and lamentation for the dead, 139.

taniwha: a fabulous denizen of deep water, 26.

too: spear, 162.

tapairu: first-born female in a family of high rank, 267.

tapatapa: incantation; chant, 138.

tapau: floor mat, 179.

tapu: sacred; ceremonial restriction, 6.

taro: food plant, 1.

taua: war-party, 229.

tauira: scholar, 181.

taumanu: canoe thwart, 142.

taunga: domestic possessions, 146.

tawa: a tree, 175.

Tawhaki: god of lightning, 143.

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Tawhiri-matea : god of wind and rain, 182.

teka: projecting foot-piece of ko, 138.

ti: a shrub, 8.

tikaka: at the zenith (of the sun); noon, 186.

tiki: greenstone amulet; a figure carved on the posts of a house, 38.

Tinirau: progenitor of fish,

ti rakau: stick game, 116.

tirau: hard wooden fork, 172.

titoki: a tree, 224.

toetoe whatu-manu: light grass or rushes, 117.

toha: congealed lump, 265.

toheroa: shellfish, 151.

tohora: right whale, 163.

toko: stick used in sacred rites of divination; staff or walking stick, 7.

toroa: albatross or molly- mawk, 66.

torotoro: climbing plant, 7.

totara: forest tree, 7.

toutouwai: North Island robin, 263.

Tu: god of war, 158.

tuahu: sacred place, 8.

tuhua: obsidian, 158.

tui: bird, 5.

tutae-kuri: a grass, 189.

tutai: watcher, 196.

tutu: tree in which bird snares are set, 141.

Tutunui: a legendary whale, 245

Uenuku: rainbow god; 76. ariki of Hawaiki, 247.

umu: oven, 188.

upoko: upper part; head, 35.

uruuruwhenua: tree fern, 189.

uto: enemy, 107.

wahaika: a weapon, 266.

wahi tapu: sacred place, 7.

wananga: sacred lore, 185.

whakamomori: commit suicide, 147.

whakanoa: make free from tapu, 173.

whakatiki: fast; keep short of food, 158.

whtanake: "cabbage-tree/ 233.

wharariki: poor quality flax, 35.

wharau: temporary hut, 190.

wharawhara: a plant, 120.

whare: house, 64.

whare korero: house where speeches are made, 6.

whare kura: house of knowledge, 199.

whare manuwhiri: guest house, 196.

whare matoro: house for social intercourse, 4.

whare runanga: public meeting house, 60.

whata: elevated stage, 29.