Canoe
Tainui Te Arawa Mataatua Takitimu Tokomaru Kurahaupo Aotea
It is pronounced as "wah-kah."
Otautahi Meaning the place of Tautahi a chief who arrived in one of the original waka (ocean going canoes)
Ko (name your waka, i.e Aotea) toku waka means "Aotea is my waka". It is a part of a pepeha....In Maori tikanga, when you go through your whakawhanaungatanga (meet n greet), in a nut shell you tell people not only your name, but your parents names, your tribe (iwi), sub tribe (hapu), the canoe that your ancestors arrived on (waka), etc.
"Naka" is not a Maori word. It does not have a meaning in Maori language.
Waka Taua is a war canoe for the maori people of New Zeland.
Waka (Maori canoes)
waka
The Cook Islands are populated by the Maori people. The traditional watercraft of the Maori is the Waka or Waka taua (war canoe)
Tainui Te Arawa Mataatua Takitimu Tokomaru Kurahaupo Aotea
It is pronounced as "wah-kah."
Tainui, Te arawa, Mataatua, Takitimu, Tokomaru, Kurahaupo and Aotea.
Ko (name your waka, i.e Aotea) toku waka means "Aotea is my waka". It is a part of a pepeha....In Maori tikanga, when you go through your whakawhanaungatanga (meet n greet), in a nut shell you tell people not only your name, but your parents names, your tribe (iwi), sub tribe (hapu), the canoe that your ancestors arrived on (waka), etc.
Motoka, or motuka. These are both transliterations from English, i.e motoka sounds like motor car. Another word for car is waka, which also means canoe. Waka is a traditional Maori word.
Shakira song Waka Waka mean that inconswelo.
It is said, Maori traversed the oceans via waka (canoe) from Hawaiki-nui.
Otautahi Meaning the place of Tautahi a chief who arrived in one of the original waka (ocean going canoes)