| 1 )
akua |
a god or goddess |
| 2 )
long-distance voyaging |
a long, open–ocean voyage navigated without modern tools or instruments |
| 3 )
migrate |
to move to another place and live there |
| 4 )
spring |
a place where underground water emerges |
| 5 )
ʻawa |
a drink made from the root of the Piper methysticum plant |
| 6 )
Polynesia |
a region of the Pacific Ocean that includes the island groups of Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa, Rapanui, Sāmoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and others |
| 7 )
Aotearoa |
New Zealand |
| 8 )
Māori |
the indigenous people of Aotearoa |
| 9 )
kinolau |
many bodies; plant and animal forms that gods can appear in or that are signs for particular gods |
| 10 )
kapu |
forbidden, off-limits, sacred |
| 11 )
complexion |
skin tone |
| 12 )
waʻa |
canoe |
| 13 )
invoke |
to call upon a greater power; to pray to or summon |
| 14 )
famine |
a time of extreme shortage of food |
| 15 )
embody |
to appear in a physical form |
| 16 )
pūnāwai |
kahi e puaʻi mai ai ka wai mai ka honua mai |
| 17 )
wā wī |
ka wā pōkole loa o ka meaʻai |