1864 Newspaper Article - A Murder - Grammar Breakdown

Kia ora tatou! I have a Patreon now. I am trying to release a few extra stuff more frequently. Check it out here: https://patreon.com/amaoripodcast I did an English interpretation which you can read here. Below is a selection of phrases I liked from the Maori Newspaper read in the previous episode. You can check it out here: I didn't do a reading of part 2, but if you want to read it you can find it here: whakatauki: 'Ae, nga ra o toru whitu.' The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs, Te Kohikohinga whakatauki a Raupo. pg. 155. me te waipiro nei ano te kaha. - ano: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/231, https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/45397 He mea noa iho te mahinga. - noa iho: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/4430 kia to te ra. - kia: see Harlow, A Maori Reference Grammar. pg 216 for examples. ka pokapoka haere i te tangai. - haere: 'Following other verbs, haere implies that the activity is carried out as one goes around.' Harlow, A Maori Reference Grammar. pg 41-42. katahi ka whakairia te tahaa ki raro iho i te pokanga hei heketanga mo te wai rakau ki roto. hei: 'indicating purpose and/or intention' H.W. Williams, A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pg.44 mo: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/4117 heketanga: 'nominalisation...in other cases, the noun derived in this way designates the result of the action of the verb: panuitanga - announcement, the thing which comes about through someone's action of announcing...'Harlow, A Maori Reference Grammar. pg 116. ko te pokanga, ko te taha; ko te pokanga, ko te taha -- i tena rakau, i tena rakau. tena: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/7913 ki te mea ka inu i te heketanga mai ano i te rakau e reka noa iho ana; tena ki te waiho kia po toru e tu ana i roto i te ipu kia toroi i te ra, katahi ka rite tonu ki te waipiro. ki te mea: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/2728 po toru: 'Po whitu ki te moana ka whiti ki Hawaiki. - We'll be at sea for 7 nights until we reach Hawaiki.' A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pg 285, H.W. Williams kotahi te tangata. - https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/340 kihai i takitaro e ngaro ana ka puta mai tetahi tangata ki te whare. - kihai i takitaro: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/2614 Mea ana taua tangata kia moe ia i reira i taua po. kia: to indicated purpose/intention - 3rd example, He Pataka Kupu. he koa anake te wahine o te whare ki nga hanga o te tangata ra. anake: entirely completely without exeception. The Maori Comparative Dictionary. E. Treagar, pg 11 katahi ka urungatia e te tangata ra te takai o ana hanga hei urunga mona, a ka moe. urunga - https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/8919 takai - https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/7210