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Ao Toa

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by Cathie Dunsford


  oyster-catcher bird

  totara

  large native tree.

  tuatua

  shellfish resembling pipi

  tui

  parson bird with white feathers at throat

  urenika

  Maori potatoes

  utu

  revenge

  wahine

  women

  wahine toa

  strong women

  waiata

  song

  wairua

  soul

  waka

  canoe

  wakame

  edible seaweed

  weka

  flightless bird that sounds like a kiwi at night

  wenewene

  gourd; also used of convulvulus

  weta

  large insect like a giant barbed cricket

  whakapapa

  ancestry

  whanau

  family

  whare

  hut or house

  whare nui

  large house or long house

 

 

 


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