Marae Reo People in the house

Important reo on the marae:

• Hui a meeting of any kind, conference, gathering

• Marae the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house or applied to a whole marae complex, including meeting house, dining hall, forecourt, etc.

• Haere mai! Welcome! Enter!

• Nau mai! Welcome!

• Tangihanga funeral ceremonies, when body is mourned on a marae

• Tangi short (verbal version) for the above or to cry, to mourn

• Karanga the ceremony of calling to the guests to welcome them to enter the marae

• Manuhiri guests, visitors

• Tangata whenua original people belonging to a place, local people, hosts

• Whaikōrero the art and practise of speech making

• Kaikōrero or kaiwhai kōrero speaker (there are many other terms)

• Haka chant with dance for the purpose of challenge;

• Waiata song or chant which follows speech

• Koha gift, present (usually money, can be food or precious items, given by guest to hosts)

• Whare nui meeting house; in writing this is sometimes run together as one word – wharenui

• Whare whakairo carved meeting house

• Whare kai dining hall

• Whare paku lavatory, toilet

• Whare horoi ablution block, bathroom

Concepts

• Aroha compassion, tenderness, sustaining love

• Ihi power, authority, essential force

• Mana authority, power; secondary meaning: reputation, influence

• Manaakitanga respect for hosts or kindness to guests, to entertain, to look after

• Mauri hidden essential life force or a symbol of this

• Noa safe from tapu (see below), non-sacred, not tabooed

• Raupatu confiscate, take by force

• Rohe boundary, a territory (either geographical or spiritual) of an iwi or hapū

• Taihoa to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans, etc.

• Tapu sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo

• Tiaki to care for, look after, guard (kaitiaki – guardian, trustee)

• Taonga treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious

• Tino rangatiratanga the highest possible independent chiefly authority, paramount authority, sometimes used for sovereignty

• Tūrangawaewae a place to stand, a place to belong to, a seat or location of identity

• Wehi to be held in awe

• Whakapapa genealogy, to recite genealogy, to establish kin connections

• Whenua land, homeland, country; also afterbirth, placenta

People and their groups

• Ariki  person of high inherited rank from senior lines of descent, male or female

• Hapū  clan, tribe, independent section of a people; modern usage – sub-tribe; to be born

• Iwi  people, nation; modern usage – tribe; bones

• Kaumātua  elder or elders, senior people in a kin group

• Ngāi Tātou  a way of referring to everyone present – we all

• Pākehā this word is not an insult; its derivation is obscure; it is the Māori word for people living in New Zealand of British/European origin; originally it would not have included, for example, Dalmatians, Italians, Greeks, Indians, Chinese, etc.

• Rangatira  person of chiefly rank, boss, owner

• Tama  son, young man, youth

• Tamāhine  daughter

• Tamaiti  one child

• Tamariki  children

• Tāne man, husband, men, husbands

• Teina/taina  junior relative, younger brother of a brother, younger sister of a sister

• Tipuna/tupuna  ancestor

• Tuahine  sister of a man

• Tuakana  senior relative, older brother of a brother, older sister of a sister

• Tungāne  brother of a sister

• Wahine  woman, wife (wāhine women, wives)

• Waka  canoe, canoe group (all the iwi and hapū descended from the crew of a founding waka)

• Whāngai  fostered or adopted child, young person

• Whānau  extended or non-nuclear family

• Whanaunga  kin, relatives

Greetings

• E noho rā  Goodbye (from a person leaving)

• E haere rā  Goodbye (from a person staying)

• Haere mai  Welcome!, Come!

• Hei konā rā  Goodbye (less formal)

• Kia ora   Hi!, G'day! (general informal greeting)

• Mōrena  (Good) morning!

• Nau mai   Welcome! Come!

• Tēnā koe   formal greeting to one person

• Tēnā kōrua   formal greeting to two people

• Tēnā koutou   formal greeting to many people

• Tēnā tātou katoa   formal inclusive greeting to everybody present, including oneself