Revenge: A Love Tale of the Mount Eden Tribe
Appendix A: Glossary
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.
page 286huia: 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.
page 287mako: 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.
page 288porangi: 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.
page 289Tawhiri-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.