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Language: South Island Maori

Source/Author:  Harlow 1987 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mri  Glottocode: sout2867 
Notes:  Harlow, R (1987) A word-list of South Island Maori. Linguistic Society of New Zealand.
 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:Central Pacific:East Fijian-Polynesian:Polynesian:Nuclear:East:Central:Tahitic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand rika   1, 64  
2 left maue   1, 59  
3 right tika 'straight' x  
4 leg/foot uaeuae   1, 100  
5 to walk haere   6  
6 road/path huanui      
7 to come haramai   1, 42  
7 to come tae to come/arrive    
8 to turn word info tahuli   15  
8 to turn word info tahuri to turn, to turn around 15  
9 to swim kaukau   5  
10 dirty maku      
11 dust nehu   1, 67  
12 skin kiri   1  
13 back word info tuara   11, 113  
14 belly kauaritaka      
15 bone iui   52, 5  
16 intestines piro      
17 liver ate   1  
18 breast u   1  
19 shoulder pakihiwi   8  
20 to know, be knowledgeable matau   1  
20 to know, be knowledgeable mohio to know 52  
20 to know, be knowledgeable ara to know, to awake    
21 to think mahara   8  
22 to fear mataku   1  
23 blood toto   4  
24 head uboko   10  
25 neck kaki   20  
26 hair word info huruhuru   31  
27 nose ihu   1  
28 to breathe kauhou      
28 to breathe breathe 11  
29 to sniff, smell hoki   9  
30 mouth uaha   1, 8  
31 tooth niho   1  
32 tongue arero   15  
33 to laugh kata   7  
34 to cry taki   1  
35 to vomit ruaki   8, 31  
36 to spit huare   18  
36 to spit tuha to expectorate, to spit 120  
37 to eat kaikai   1, 47  
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info pupu b.    
39 to cook word info taona to roast, to burn 10  
39 to cook word info tao(-na) cook (Wiliams 1971) 10  
40 to drink inu   1  
41 to bite kakáhu   7  
42 to suck      
43 ear tarika   1  
44 to hear roko   1  
44 to hear fakaroko to hear, to listen 1  
45 eye konohi   4  
46 to see kite   1  
47 to yawn whakaturupeke      
47 to yawn hamama to yawn, to open 19, 28  
48 to sleep moe   10, 109  
49 to lie down word info tokoto   7, 10  
50 to dream reki   46  
51 to sit noho   16  
52 to stand tu   2  
53 person/human being taane      
53 person/human being taane husband x  
54 man/male tangata   12, 14  
55 woman/female uahine   1, 106, 116  
56 child nohinohi      
57 husband takata tou   77  
58 wife putahi      
59 mother hakui   15  
60 father hakolo   31  
61 house uare   14  
62 thatch/roof tapatu   50  
62 thatch/roof tuanui roof (no definition given) 77  
63 name ikoa   6  
64 to say ki   43  
65 rope taura   9  
66 to tie up, fasten herea   43  
67 to sew word info tuitui   13, 16  
68 needle tui   66  
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info buhia   17  
71 to stab, pierce uerohia   15  
72 to hit word info tukituki   8  
72 to hit word info batua to beat, to kill 7  
73 to steal tahai   5  
74 to kill nanati      
74 to kill batua to beat, to kill 9  
75 to die, be dead hemo      
76 to live, be alive noho 'stay or live, as in inhabit'-MW x  
77 to scratch word info rakuraku   9  
78 to cut, hack word info kotia   9  
78 to cut, hack word info tataka to cut 3  
79 stick/wood rakau   1, 26  
80 to split word info      
81 sharp koi   14, 66  
82 dull, blunt puruhi   18  
83 to work word info mahi   54  
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info tipu   1, 43  
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info tatau   13  
89 to hold word info kapokapo   15?  
90 to dig karikari   1  
91 to buy hoko   7  
92 to open, uncover huakina   8  
92 to open, uncover hamama to yawn, to open    
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info paka      
95 to fall word info hika to fall down 44  
95 to fall word info horo to fall down    
96 dog kuri   7  
97 bird      
98 egg hua   5  
99 feather      
100 wing      
101 to fly herere   11  
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh puru      
104 fat/grease ihinu   12  
105 tail uairo   10  
105 tail hiku tail of a fish 13  
106 snake      
107 worm (earthworm)      
108 louse word info kutu   1  
109 mosquito keroa   54  
110 spider      
111 fish ika   1  
112 rotten word info popoa   14  
113 branch word info      
114 leaf rau   1  
115 root mori      
116 flower      
117 fruit hua   1  
118 grass maukuuku   58  
119 earth/soil one   35  
120 stone boatu   1, 19  
121 sand one   1  
122 water word info uai moli   2  
123 to flow      
124 sea tai   1  
125 salt tuatara      
126 lake hapua      
126 lake uinukaha lake or possibly umukaha - a name (Possible handwritting error in orig. source)    
127 woods/forest kaereere   16  
128 sky raki   1  
129 moon marama   7  
130 star fetu   1  
131 cloud word info paiao   12, 67  
132 fog kohu   1, 47  
132 fog waikohu mist, fog (Williams 1971) 1, 47  
133 rain auha   1  
134 thunder faitiri   14  
135 lightning      
136 wind hau   10  
137 to blow word info pupuhi b. 6  
138 warm word info mahana   1, 72  
138 warm word info auhau warm perhaps, cloudy    
139 cold word info makariri   1, 52  
140 dry word info maroke a. 13  
141 wet makū   10  
142 heavy taumaha   46, 66  
143 fire ahi   1  
144 to burn word info uera   63  
144 to burn word info tahuna to burn 8  
145 smoke word info au   2  
145 smoke word info auai smoke 2  
146 ash bukarehu   67  
147 black puko      
148 white huka      
149 red uero   36  
150 yellow      
151 green rako      
152 small iti   1  
153 big nui large, great, strong, abundant 11  
154 short word info poto a. 9  
155 long word info roa   12, 105  
155 long word info roroa long 12, 105  
156 thin word info rahirahi   5  
157 thick word info matoru   3  
158 narrow      
159 wide      
160 painful, sick tupāpaku      
160 painful, sick tumatuma sick    
161 shy, ashamed mate shame, death, sickness, desire x  
162 old word info tahito   10  
163 new      
164 good pai   76  
165 bad, evil kino   9  
166 correct, true kamau   10  
167 night po   1  
168 day ao   1, 54  
168 day auatea light, day 27  
169 year tau   1  
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info hunahuna   1, 16  
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this tenei   7, 1  
178 that tena   1  
179 near tatata   9  
180 far uaho      
181 where? word info fea   3, 35  
182 I au   1, 21  
183 thou koe   1  
184 he/she ia   1  
185 we word info matau   2, 39  
186 you koetou   16  
187 they ratau   1, 72  
187 they raua them two, they two x  
188 what? word info aha   1  
189 who? word info koai   1  
190 other      
191 all katoa   13  
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not kāhore   11  
195 no, not kahai no 10, 83  
196 to count taui   8  
197 One word info tetahi   41  
197 One word info tahi one, together, simultaneously 41  
198 Two word info rua   1  
199 Three word info toru   1  
200 Four word info fa   1, 66  
201 Five word info rima   1  
202 Six word info ono   1  
203 Seven word info fitu   1  
204 Eight word info uaru   3  
205 Nine word info hiua   5  
206 Ten word info kahuru   5, 32  
207 Twenty word info takau   4  
208 Fifty word info hokotoru      
209 One Hundred word info hokouaru      
209 One Hundred word info rau hundred 2  
210 One Thousand word info mano   2  

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