I whiua ranei ki te wahi tapu ranei; i whiua ranei ki te wahi noa ranei, he throws a portion to one side as an offering to his God.
The following is correct in Waikato: E pa, kei hea tetahi wahi mo matou?
Haere mai ki te wahi ruru i a koe, come to the spot sheltered for you.
It is a wonderful thing, the perfect egoism of early youth, the way it has no ears for the words of reason and wisdom, and only half an ear for anything else.
No matter what was said to her, she heard only half of it.
Olelo aku la ua wahi kanaka nei, "O ka'u ia e olelo aku ana ia oe, e holo kakou, i na paha aia kakou i uka o Paliuli kahi i noho ai i keia mau la.
Hoi hou aku la ka Makaula iluna o Kauwiki, e lawe mai i kana mau wahi ukana, na mea ana i hoomakaukau ai i kanaenae.
I aku keia, "He kamaaina no ko makou mea nana i alakai mai, oia hoi kela wahi kanaka nana i olelo mai ia oe no Kauakahialii.
A lilo ae la ua wahi kanaka nei i mea nui, huahua mai la na punahele mua a Aiwohikupua, aka, he mea ole lakou i ko ke Alii manao.
Ia manawa, haalele e Poliahu i kona kapa hau, lalau like ae la ka poe noho mauna i ko lakua kapa la, hoi aku la ka hau a kona wahi mau.
Auhea iho nei la hoi Ua mauwahi hulu alaala nei Au i oo aku ai I ka maka o ke keiki A Maihuna?
After a day or two of these ceremonies, the body was taken by the tohunga and his assistants within the sacred grove, or wahi tapu.
They were calledwahi tapu, and no one dared to enter them.
Certain lands, at the present day, cannot be bought from their Maori owners because of wahi tapu upon them.
There is a wahi tapu, a cavern in this instance, near the Bay of Islands, that will yield treasure-trove to curio-hunters some day.
A Maori would certainly rather die than enter the precincts of a wahi tapu; his terrors would probably kill him if he were so much as touched by a ngarara, or little green lizard.
Water flowing from a wahi tapu was sacred, and whatever it touched became tinctured with the same dread property.
Rather a nuisance, sometimes, one would think, such as when a storm of rain should send a new watercourse from some wahi tapu on a hill-side down into the river, or through the kainga.
That's rather misleading, though, for it was never a wahi tapu, or native cemetery.
No mention was ever made of it after the payments had been all made, and so I think I may venture to affirm that the existence of the said wahi tapu is of very doubtful authenticity, though it certainly cost me a round "lot of trade.
He might be clearing some land for potatoes, burning off the fern, and the fire spreads farther than he intended, and gets into a wahi tapu or burial-ground.
It must be confessed, that if the O Wahi language be peculiarly adapted for poetry, this composition does not do it justice.
My informant, Karemaku, mentioned only one ship, which was seen at a distance; and although the iron anchors found at O Wahi and at Muwe prove that they must have been there, he could give no account of them.
Tameamea, during Vancouver's visit, swayed the sceptre only over the islands of O Wahi and Muwe, and was engaged in wars with his neighbour kings, whom he fought with the assistance of cannon purchased from European ships.
This duel, by which Tameamea became King of O Wahi and of Muwe, which had also belonged to Kawarao, took place in the year 1781.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wahi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
