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Down through the
chimneys, into the houses, storks deliver babies. Houses are
'female' and from inside the 'houses' the babies will then be
delivered out into the light. The word roto
means 'inside'.
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Roto
1. Inside. 2. Lagoon (off the coast,
in the sea). 3. To press the juice out of a plant;
taheta roto pua, stone vessel used for
pressing the juice out of the pua plant, this
vessel is also just called roto. Roto o
niu, east wind. Vanaga.
1. Marsh, swamp, bog; roto nui,
pond; roto iti, pool. 2. Inside, lining; o
roto, interior, issue; ki roto, within,
into, inside, among; mei roto o mea, issue;
no roto mai o mea, maternal; vae no roto,
drawers. Churchill. |
The creation
chant is using the expression ki ai ki roto for the
consequences (ai) of 'going inside' (ki roto),
e.g.:
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Ti
by copulating with Ta (Tattoing) produced the
ti. |
he ti ki ai ki roto ki a he ta ka pu te ti |
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Acridness by copulating with bad-taste produced the
arum. |
mangeongeo ki ai ki roto he rakerake ka pu te
kape |
| Ai
Aai 1.
Who: interrogative pronoun used in place of koai
te mee...: Aai i-tu'u-mai-nei, e-haśru-ró-ana au? =
Koai te mee i-tu'u-mai-nei, e-haśru-ró-ana au?
Who is it who came here when I was sleeping? 2.
Whose: genitive pronoun. Vanaga.
1. (Ko ai) Who, which. 2.
Then. 3. Consequence. 4. (Hai). Churchill. |
The rest of the
name of the kuhane station, iri are, is
fetched from the name of a kind of sea-weed (iri-are):
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1. To go up; to go in a boat on the
sea (the surface of which gives the impression of
going up from the coast): he-eke te tagata ki
ruga ki te vaka, he-iri ki te Hakakaiga, the men
boarded the boat and went up to Hakakainga.
2. Ka-iri ki puku toiri ka toiri. Obscure
expression of an ancient curse. Vanaga.
Iri-are, a seaweed. Vanaga. |
| Are
To dig out (e.g. sweet potatoes).
Formerly this term only applied to women, speaking
of men one said keri, which term is used
nowadays for both sexes, e.g. he-keri i te
kumara, he digs out sweet potatoes. Vanaga.
To dig, to excavate. Churchill. |
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