Found 11 results matching "tipuna"

• tīpūna

  (loan) (noun) teaspoon.
  Ka maka kia kotahi tīpūna huka pango ki roto, ka kōrori kia rewa (TP 5/1909:4). / Add one teaspoon of brown sugar and stir until it melts. See also tīpūnu.
  

• tipuna wahine

  (noun) female ancestor, grandmother, great grandmother. See also tipuna, tīpuna, tupuna wahine.
  

• tūpuna

  (noun) ancestors, grandparents - western dialect variation of tīpuna.
  Kua mate noa atu ō mātou tūpuna. / Our grandparents died long ago. See also tīpuna, tupuna wahine.
  

• tupuna

  (noun) ancestor, grandparent - western dialect variation of tipuna. See also tupuna tāne, tupuna wahine, tipuna.
  

• tīpuna

  (noun) ancestors, grandparents - eastern dialect variation of tūpuna.
  Nā Mahuta te kupu ki te taina, mō te kākahu kanukanu o ō rāua tīpuna. Māku e tāpiri atu tēnei, kāore he mate, e Waikato, ki te kānihitia e koe ngā pakaru o te kākahu nā, hei whāriki mōu ā kō ake nei (TAH 18:19). / Mahuta suggestion to his younger brother concerning their ancestors' tattered cloak. I will add this, no misfortune will befall you, Waikato, if you patch up the torn cloak, as a mat for you in the future. See also tipuna, tūpuna, tipuna wahine.
  

• tipuna

  (noun) ancestor, grandparent, grandfather, grandmother - eastern dialect variation of tupuna. See also tupuna tāne, tīpuna, tipuna wahine, tupuna.
  

• tipuna whare

  ancestral house - a term often used for a meeting house.
  Tīraha mai i te kaokao o tō tipuna whare (HM 4/2009:3). / Lie there in state in the side of your ancestral house. See also wharenui.
  

• tipuna tāne

  (noun) male ancestor, grandfather, great grandfather, forefather. See also tupuna tāne, tīpuna tāne.
  

• tīpuna tāne

  (noun) grandfathers, grand-uncles, great-uncles, male ancestors - the eastern dialect form of tūpuna tāne and plural form of tipuna tāne. See also tipuna tāne, tūpuna tāne.
  

• tūpuna tāne

  (noun) grandfathers, grand-uncles, great-uncles, male ancestors - the western dialect form of tīpuna tāne and plural form of tupuna tāne.
  He epeepe tonu nei rāua, ā, i te wā e kōhungahunga tonu ana i puta ai te whakahau a wō rāua tūpuna tāne rā, kia taumautia rāua i runga anō i te tikanga o te tomo (TTR 2000:68-69). / They were distant cousins and when they were still quite young their grandfathers decreed that they be betrothed under the customary practice of betrothal. See also tīpuna tāne, tupuna tāne.
  

• whare tipuna

  (noun) ancestral house.