Maori
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Maori
- Alternate names: New Zealand Maori
- Language code: mri
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian, Central Eastern Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 60000
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Maori is a language of New Zealand. It is spoken in Far north, North Island, east coast. Also in United States.
Dialects
Bay of Plenty, Moriori, North Auckland, Rotorua-Taupo, South Island, Taranaki, Wanganui. Formerly fragmented into regional dialects, some of which diverged quite radically from what became the standard dialect. Lexical similarity: 71% with Hawaiian (See: Hawaiian), 57% with Samoan (See: Samoan).
The Maori Verb
Verblist
ā, ahu, akiri, ako, amo, ānau, anganui, apa, ara, ārahi, ārai, aro, ārohirohi, aru, ātaahua, atawhai, atiti, ato, au, auahi, auau, aukati, anga, angi, awhitu, ehu, eke, hā, haere, haere atu, haere mai, haere ra, haereere, haeremai, haha, hahana, hahani, hahu, hakahaka, hake, hākinakina, hakirara, hakiri, hākure, hama, hamu, hamumu, hana, hanahana, hanake, hanatu, hanumi, hāparangi, hara, haramai, hārapa, hārau, hārewa, hari, harirū, hāro, hau, haukaha, haukoti, haumākū, hauraro, hautū, hanga, hangarau, hē, hea, heke, hemo, hemokai, hepara, herehere, heu, heuheu, hī ika, hiki, hiko, hīoi, hoa, hoe, hoka, hōkaka, hono, hopu, horoi, hongi, hū, hua, huatau, hui, hukapapa, humuhumu, huru, hūtuki, ī, inoi, inu, kā, kaha, kai, kainga, kakakaka, kākāriki, karakia, kārohirohi, kau, kawa, kāwana, keakea, kēkē, keri, kī, kihirua, kini, kirikiri, kite, koe, koekoe, kōhua, kōhue, kopa, kōpaki, kōrero, kongakonga, kupu, kuru, kutikuti, mahi, māhū, mahuru, maina, maka, makariri, makere, maki, makimaki, manaaki, mānu, mārena, marino, mātakitaki, mataku, mātau, mate, matira, matomato, māngoingoi, mihi, mina, miraka, moe, moemoeā, motu, motumotu, mutu, nānā, noa, noho, oma, ora, oroi, ota, pā, pākehā, paki, pakini, pānui, papahū, parai, parakuihi, pata, pātai, patu, pēhea, penapena, pī, pīata, piro, pōhēhē, pōpō, pōti, pūmanawa, puna, pūpū, puru, purupuru, puta, punga, rahi, rāhui, rara, rārangi, rehurehu, rewa, ripo, rite, rīti, roha, rona, rongoā, ruaki, ruku, ruruku, tā, tahi, tahito, tāhono, taka, takai, takatakahi, takiuru, tāone, tārere, tari, tau, taurumarumaki, tauwhere, tangi, tangitangi, tangiweto, tāwhiri, tia, tiaki, tiki, tina, tino mate nui ki, tiri, tiro, tō, toa, tōhi, toko, tokotoko, tomo, tōpū, toto, tū, tua, tuhi, tūhura, tuitui, tuku, tūmanako, tunu, tupu, turaki, tute, tutū, ū, ua, uaua, uira, unu, uru, uta, utauta, utu, utuutu, wae, waea, wahangū, wāhi, waiata, waimārie, wānanga, wawā, wāwā, wawao, wehe, wehe atu, wehi, wiki, wiri, ngaro, ngāwhā, whai, whaikaha, whakahohe, whakamā, whakamaheni, whakanau, whakapapa, whakaraka, whakarangona, whakaririka, whakarongo, whakarongona, whakataka, whakataurekareka, whakatewhatewha, whakatōpū, whakawahine, whana, whānau, whao, wharau, whatu, whatutoto, whawhai, whero, whiri, whiriwhiri, whiti, whiu.
- ara, matau, mohio, moohio -- to know, be knowledgeable
- batua, nanati, patu -- to kill
- batua, patu, tukituki -- to hit
- buhia, whana -- to shoot
- eëi, kai, kaikai -- to eat
- fakaroko, rongo -- to hear
- hā, kauhou, whakataa -- to breathe
- haamama(mama), hamama, whakaturupeke -- to yawn
- haere mai, haramai, tae -- to come
- haere, haere-a-waewae -- to walk
- hamama, huaki, huakina -- to open, uncover
- hemo, mate -- to die, be dead
- herea, herehere -- to tie up, fasten
- herere -- to fly
- hika, horo, makere -- to fall
- hoki, hongi -- to sniff, smell
- hoko -- to buy
- hua, pupuhi -- to blow
- huare, tuha -- to spit
- huna, hunahuna -- to hide
- huri, tahuli, tahuri -- to turn
- inu -- to drink
- kakáhu, ngau -- to bite
- kapokapo, pupuri -- to hold
- karikari, keri -- to dig
- kata -- to laugh
- katikati -- to chew
- kauhoe, kaukau -- to swim
- ki, koorero -- to say
- kite -- to see
- kotee, tatau -- to squeeze
- kotia, taa, tataka -- to cut, hack
- mahara, whakaaro -- to think
- mahi -- to work
- mataku -- to fear
- moe -- to sleep
- moemoeaa, reki -- to dream
- ngote -- to suck
- noho -- to sit
- noho, ora -- to live, be alive
- oka, uerohia -- to stab, pierce
- paka, panga, patoopatoo -- to throw
- piki -- to climb
- puku -- to swell
- pupu, tao, tao(-na), taona -- to cook
- rakuraku -- to scratch
- ruaki -- to vomit
- taahae, tahai -- to steal
- tahu, tahuna, uera -- to burn
- taki, tangi -- to cry
- takoto, tokoto -- to lie down
- tatau, taui -- to count
- tere -- to flow
- tipu, tupu -- to grow
- too -- to plant
- tu, tuu -- to stand
- tui, tuitui -- to sew
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- waawaahi -- to split
- whaiwhai -- to hunt
- whiri -- to choose
References
- K.T.Harawira. Beginner's Maori. Beginner's Guides. Hippocrene Books, Inc.. New York, 1997.