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Remember that Maori song lyrics are just like English poetry: they use elliptical speech and are not always grammatically correct, and the phrases may have several layers of meaning. You are not translating legal documents!        

Te Aka Maori Dictionary


Tai Tokerau Maori Dictionary

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Use aa, ee, ii, oo, uu for long vowels.

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Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary
          Edward Tregear, 1891               

A - E - H - I - K - M - N - NG - O

P - R - T - U - W - WH - Other pages
                         

Ngata Dictionary

This gives sample sentences, and shows long vowels as ā, ē, ī, ō, ū.
But a search for a short word can give hundreds of results.

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Williams Maori Dictionary
          Herbert Williams, 6th edition, 1957            

A - E - H - I - K - M - N - Ng - O

P - R - T - U - W - Non-Polynesian

Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
          language.psy.auckland.ac.nz

200 basic words. Explore how Maori words are linked to 400 other Pacific Ocean languages.

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relating to one of these basic English terms:
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Te Puna
     NZ National Library     Find where and when NZ songs were recorded, and who sang them. You can interloan Maori CDs you find.

Tuhinga
      Search historic Maori documents
                  1841 to 1976


                    M&P Turnbull Library,
               NZETC            ENZB
                       Te Ao Hou        Nuipepa

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Te Ao Hou    

Published from 1952 to 1976 by the Maori Affairs Dept.
Waiata, haka, mythical tales and record reviews. as well as wood carving, cooking, dairy farming and important obituaries.

Wakareo

Much bigger than the dictionaries above, if you have NZ$144 a year to buy access to it!

An on-line Mäori-English-Mäori lexicon produced with the assistance and cooperation of the Mäori Language Commission.
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ERO Word-lists

    A list of terms used by the ERO when evaluating Maori schools.
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