Place Names
Terms
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- Akaroa
- Long harbour
- Aotearoa
- Long white cloud (Māori name for New Zealand)
- Hokianga
- Returning
- Kaikōura
- To eat crayfish
- Kaitāia
- (Kaitatāia) Food thrown about
- Kapiti
- Crevice, joining
- Kawhia (Kaawhiawhi)
- To perform a ceremony
- Kōhanga Reo
- Māori preschool
- Kupe
- The great Polynesian navigator who discovered Aotearoa
- Kura Kaupapa
- Māori secondary school
- Mana
- Strength, prestige, power
- Manawatū
- Heart stood still
- Manukau
- Wading bird
- Māori
- Indigenous person of Aotearoa
- Motungārara
- Insect or lizard island
- ÅŒpÅtiki
- The place of Potiki
- Otago
- Correctly: Otakou - the place of red earth or ochre
- ÅŒtaki
- To stick in (the place where the staff was stuck in the ground)
- Paihia
- Good here (partial transliteration)
- Pākehā
- White person
- Rangitoto
- Blood sky
- Rotorua
- (The) second lake
- Ruapuke
- Two hills
- Tāmaki
- Battle
- Tauranga
- Sheltered anchorage
- Te Herenga Waka
- The hitching post of the canoes
- Te Kaha
- The rope (or boundary line)
- Te Papa Tongarewa
- The Treasure Box (Our Place, The National Museum)
- Te Puni Kōkiri
- The group moving forward (the Ministry of Māori Development)
- Tokomaru
- An ancestral canoe, or a staff shelter
- Waiapu
- Swallowing water
- Waikanae
- Water, mullet (the glistening of the mullet)
- Waikato
- Flowing water
- Waimate
- Weeping water
- Waitangi
- Weeping water
- Wanganui
- (properly: Whanganui) Big harbour
- Whakarewarewa
- To prepare for war
- Whakatāne
- To act like a man