cabbage – kāpeti |
cake – keke |
calf – kāwhe |
canoe – whaka |
Canterbury – Waitaha |
Canterbury Plains – Ngā Pākihi-whatatekateka-a-Waitaha |
Cape Reinga – Te Rerenga Wairua
Te Rerenga – the place one flies from. Wairua – spirit. Reinga – Place of leaping. |
carvers – Kaihauhau
A person who produces or shapes a figure or pattern or design by cutting into a hard material. |
carving – whakairo |
cat – ngeru |
cave – ana |
cent – hēneti |
challenge – wero |
Chatham Islands – Wharekauri
Located east of the South Island, the ‘Chathams’, as they are affectionately known, is approximately a 1 ¾ hour flight from Wellington or Christchurch! The distance that separates the islands from the mainland puts Chatham Islands 45 minutes ahead of standard New Zealand time, and a close look at the international dateline shows that the Chathams are the first to see the light of every new day – a fact that made the islands famous at the time of the new millennium. |
cheek – pāpāringa |
chest – poho |
chest – uma |
chicken – heihei |
Chief – Ariki
Chief A leader or ruler, head of a tribe, clan . A first born of high inherited rank. |
children – tamariki |
chin – kauae |
Christchurch – Ōtautahi
O – the place of Tautahi. |
cloak – korowai
A finely woven Māori cloak which is worn as a mantle of prestige and honour. |
clothes basket – pahikete kākahu |
clothes drier – mīhini whakamaroke kākahu |
clothing – kakahu |
cloud – ao |
Clutha – Mata-au
To the local āori Clutha was known as Mata-au which means surface current but was finally named Clutha which is Gaelic for Clyde by the Scottish settlers after a river in their native country. |
coconut – kikinati |
coffee machine – mīhini kawhe |
cold – makariri |
colour – kara |
comb – heru |
corn – kanga |
Coromandel Range – Te Paeroa o Toi
The long range of Toi. |
cot – moenga pēpi |
cow – kau |
crawl – ngōki |
cricket – kirikiti |
cup – kapu |
cupboard – kapata |