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and to ; and sometimes it is prefixed to the names of things, —always when personified or bearing a person's name, as a canoe, ship, &c. —and to tribes, lands, stars, —and to names of months and days :— Haere koo ki a ITemi noho ai. Kawea atu tenei ki a Tamati. Na.,' a Mea, a. Hen are, he tangata pai ia ; a Tamati he tangata kino. Ka rere mai a Tainui, a ka v. E tangi ana a Hue ki a ia, ka ripiripia ka toetoea. " Ka whakaatu ake i a Kaukaumatua. Ka rapua a Kaukaumatua " (a stone earring).— Myth. p. 78. Ko te piitake tenei i riro mai ai a Mangakahia ki au, ko te huru. Kua tae mai o au tuhi, i tuhia c koe i a Ilurae, i a Akuhata, i a Hepetema ano hold. 8. A, long, is prefixed to names of persons, to living things, and to personal pronouns, —to form the possessive case plural. (See O.) Nga kuri a Hoani. Nga kai ate poaka. A maaua patu. A ratou kai. Haere ana ratou kite whawhai, tenei hapu tenei hapu o ratou; i a ratou ano a ratou pu, a ratou tao, a ratou rakau. 4. A, long, is also prefixed to names of persons, to living things, and to personal pronouns, to give the substantive, or verbal noun, following or preceding, an active meaning. I kite ano ahau i te patunga a Hoani i tena kuri. I pera hoki te ahunga iho a nga kanohi, me ta te tahae ua hopukia. Katahi ka patua i te tirohanga mai a nga tangata. E kore ahau c neke i te pehanga a te nui, a te whakahee. Eta, ka putake te riri a o matou nei tipuna ki Heretaunga. I nui te korero ate Hapuku: koia ano te riri a taua tangata ! 5. A, long, is also prefixed to all proper and common names of men and women, and to pronouns, whenever the noun immediately preceding is that of any article of food, or of any implement or utensil for obtaining and preparing food, or of any place or thing for storing food, or of fire and firing for cooking food, or of any implement of war, to be used by them. (See A, prep, of.) Ko te pu a Hoani tena. Te patu a Mea. Tenei te kete i ngaro a taku hoa. Te kohua paku a te wahine tenei. 6. A, long, is prefixed1 to the definite article immediately preceding the noun and verbal noun, —and also to possessive pronouns, to give a future meaning. Meake ano ahau tae atu ki kona a nga ra o Tihema nei. Ko a te tau koroi koe kite ai.

Hei ate rerenga ote kaipuke te mate ai. (See A, prep, at the time of.) 7. A long is also prefixed to proper and common names of men and women, and to personal pronouns, to show the natural relationship downwards. Nga tamariki a Hoani=John's own children. Kahore he uri a tena tangata i toe. I taona ai Tunui a Takaha na i.— Poet. 220. Ko wai koe? Ko au ko Tauhou. Ka vi atu ano ia, Tauhou a wai ? Tauhou a Ira; ko ia atu. 8. A, long, is also prefixed to adverbs of time to give them a future meaning, as a mua, a muri; and to adverbs of place, as a konei, a konaa, a koo, a reira; and to prepositions of place, as a runga, a raro, a waho, a roto, for intensification and emphasis; and in a very few instances to nouns, as a uta; possibly, in some instances, for euphony : — Ka hoe matou ka hua c kore a uta c taea atu. Penei hoki c rere ana, ahiahi rawa ake ka taea a uta. Ka hoe raua kite moana, a tawhiti noa, ka ngaro a uta. Ina hoki, i wehea atu te moana mo nga ika, i wehea mai a uta mo te tangata. A, adv. part., when. Ano te hari o taua tangata a tana kitenga i a ratou! Hei karakia i to ratou waka a te putanga mai o te hau. Maau ano c mau mai a to haeretanga mai. —and then: Naau i kii, c kore c pai; a, i mea atu ahau, Heoi. Ko tenei koi noho nga iwi, a whakarongo ki aaua patipati. He whakatakariri noku, moona, i haere tona ingoa mohio, a tukua ana c ia tona kaha ki raro. E peka taaua nei ki tahaki, a taukinikini, a taurakuraku. — Poet., 172. —then: Kua mutu to patai ? Ac. A, maaku tenei patai. A, aha ana koe ? — afterward: Ka ngaro, c kore c ngaro, he paku, a ka nui. Patua, ate kakara ki ia wahi. — (Old Song.) Engari kua rongo ano, a kia rongo; kua kite ano, a kia kite. Tohea ano, a via hoki. —namely ; videlicet; that is to say : Na wai hoki i kii, a hei tango i toku kaainga ? E kore rawa c whakarere, a, ko te whakapono tera o aku tupuna, noreira ka mau tonu i au. Na, ko tenei ingoa ko Poureereere, he rakau na Hikarerepari .... haere tonu mai te ingoa a Poureereere. Ka nui rawa te hohoro kite whakataka haere i te hanga whakahara nei, a te repo (big gun). Te mahi a to iwi pakeha ki te karo i te hanga maaro nei, a te kohatu. I kitea hoki c matou tena pa, a Poneke. A.prep., of; belonging to (P.). (See O.) Confined to—l. Pood; 2. Utensils, implements, &c, used in procuring, preparing and cooking food; 3. Implements