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Waitangi or Waitingi, please? I'm seeing one but remembering the other...I think.
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Waitangi or Waitingi, please? I'm seeing one but remembering the other...I think.
Waitangi - weeping waters, buckets of tears, sobfest, etc. etc. The most common modern translation is "day off".
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Dang it--I tried to look up the Maaori translation for thank you, but kept getting kia ora, which I thought was generally used as hello/good wishes.
"day off". Same here, for some of our holidays.
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Dang it--I tried to look up the Maaori translation for thank you, but kept getting kia ora, which I thought was generally used as hello/good wishes.
"day off". Same here, for some of our holidays.
"Kia ora" is the standard, and to all practical intent the only, Maaori expression for "thank you".
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I thought was generally used as hello/good wishes.
Kia ora literally means to 'have life'. alluding to good health. Appropriate when greeting and thanking.
May I ask why the interest in Waitangi day?
Also, if you don't have this: ngata dictionary
You probably know this one sjmaxq:
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Naku noa na Olly
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I thought was generally used as hello/good wishes.
Kia ora literally means to 'have life'. alluding to good health. Appropriate when greeting and thanking.
May I ask why the interest in Waitangi day?
Also, if you don't have this: ngata dictionary
You probably know this one sjmaxq:
comparative
Naku noa na Olly
No, I didn't have that one. I might have to create a little NZ-specific section on my list, since the page currently is almost all about English, and its IE cousins.
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why the interest Er--because of the date.
Kia ora literally means to 'have life'. Thank you.
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