katoa
1. (modifier) all, every, totally, wholly, completely, without exception - used to indicate that something is all-encompassing, all-consuming or all-conquering. Sometimes used after a verb, often preceding the noun it qualifies. Where katoa follows a verb in the passive it will take a passive ending also, usually -tia. In this situation the passive ending may be dropped from the verb, but not from katoa.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 91-92;)
Ka whakatika katoa ngā tāngata ki te kimi wahie. / All the men set about looking for firewood.
Ahakoa he waiata Māori nō nehe rā anō, he waiata nō nāianei rānei, i taea katoatia e ia te tito (TTR 1998:2). / No matter whether it was traditional or contemporary Māori songs, she could compose them all.
2. (modifier) very, utterly, seriously, really, totally - acts as an intensifier, particularly when following adverbs or experience verbs.
3. (modifier) (adjective) -est.
Ko te aroha tē taea te whakatutuki, koia te aroha roa katoa, kaha katoa, mamae katoa anō hoki (HJ 2015:86). / Unrequited love, that's the longest, strongest and most painful love of all.
4. (adjective) all, every - katoa may also begin a sentence or phrase.
Katoa ngā āhuatanga o te whakamāori e whakaakona ana (H 1992:19). / All aspects of translation are being taught.
5. (noun) whole, all.
Nō muri i te inumanga tī o te ahiahi ka whakatōpūtia te katoa o ngā rōpū, ā, ka tū ia kaikōrero ki te whakaputa i ngā whakaaro o tōna anō rōpū (H 1992:12). / After afternoon tea all of the groups were assembled together and each speaker stood up to express the views of her own group.
6. (noun) everybody.
Kauaka taua tamaiti e whakaaetia kia tauera i tōna kanohi ki te tauera o te katoa (TTT 1/11/1927:686). / That child should not be allowed to dry his face with the towel used by everybody.
7. (noun) everything.
Ko tētahi mea e mīharo nei te ngākau ki ngā mahi kātahi anō nei e whakaputaina ai, ko te mea kua oti noa atu i a Tā Apirana te katoa o ngā whakaputunga mō 'Ngā Mōteatea' (M 2007:viii). / One thing that is amazing about the work that has just been published is that Sir Apirana completed everything for the collections for 'Ngā Mōteatea'.
kawanga whare
1. (noun) house-opening ceremony - the formal pre-dawn ceremony to open a new building, especially a meeting house. Because the newly carved house has been made of timber from the forests of the atua, Tāne-mahuta, and because there are carved figures of ancestors around the walls of the meeting house, the tapu on the house has to be lifted so that the building can be used by everybody. The tohunga recites karakia outside the building and the building is named. There are three karakia used, the first about Rātā, an early ancestor who was a carver and builder of canoes, and the birds of the forest which have to be appeased. The second karakia is to lift the tapu from the building and the tools used, and the third is an appeal to the atua to make the house stable and firm, to avert accidents and to make it a pleasant dwelling place. Then the tohunga and a ruahine (an older woman of rank and past child-bearing age), or a young girl, enter the house treading over the door sill, called takahi i te paepae tapu. Traditionally they would carry a cooked kūmara as well. Everybody follows the tohunga into the house as he moves around from the left side (facing out) of the house to the right. The tohunga strikes each of the carved figures with kawakawa leaves, as he moves around the house.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 170-171;)
See also kawa whakaara, kawa waere, kawa whakahoro, kawa tuainuku, kawa ahoahonga, kawa ora, kawa whakaotinga, kawa
