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The latest collection of new and changed Ngā Upoko Tukutuku headings are now available for use on the National Library website.

Below is a selection of the changes - please explore the website for the full list. These were created during hui early in 2023 and later last year, so it’s wonderful to be able to share these. This update is relatively small, but we are planning another release after the next hui in May and July. We’d love to have more requests to work on - tukua mai ōu whakaaro mō ngā ingoa me tāpiri anō ki te pae tukutuku!

Sending in requests is a really easy process: if you're handling a collection item that is either in te reo Māori or has content about Māori, and you can't find an existing term in our thesaurus to suit your item, please email reo@dia.govt.nz with your suggestion and the details of what you were working on. Suggestions in English where you don't know a Māori term are just fine. Please get those suggestions rolling in and we'll add them to our worklist.

Details of the Paengawhāwhā/Āperira/April 2023 release

This update includes a number of terms which may be useful in the context of environmental change. The rōpū created a term for sea level rise, Piki o ngā tai, which links to the existing terms Huringa āhuarangi (Climate change), Te mahana haere o te ao (Global warming) and the new term Pae moana, which refers to the surface of the sea. Pae moana may also be used for works about sea levels or the sea horizon. Other new terms relating to the Taiao (Environment) include Horanuku (Landscapes) and Paerangi, which describes the horizon in a general sense.

Te Whakakaokao has also created new terms relating to social conditions. While most Covid-19-related restrictions have been removed, lockdowns are still in recent memory and protecting whānau remains important. The term Aukati rori may be used for community checkpoints to safeguard iwi and hapū in the context of Covid-19 and other situations where communities are at risk. Utu kaimahi (Wages) is another term of topical interest.

On a lighter note, there are now new terms for both contemporary and long-established recreational activities. In the context of waka ama, the term Kaihoe has been created to describe paddlers. Tauwhāinga-toru refers to triathlons, while Mū tōrere is a classic game using counters on an eight-pointed star design.

Ngā Upoko Hou – Full list of new terms

Aukati rori – Iwi checkpoints

Hiakai - Hunger

Horanuku - Landscapes

Kaihoe - Paddlers

Kōrere – Feeding funnels

Mū tōrere - Traditional game using counters on an eight-pointed star design

Pae moana – Sea levels

Paerangi - Horizon

Piharau - Lampreys

Piki o ngā tai – Sea level rise

Tauwhāinga-toru - Triathlons

Te Ao Mārama – World of light

Toi tangata - Humanities

Utu kaimahi – Remuneration, wages

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