maori words

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Across
  1. 3. (gift, present (usually money, can be food or precious items, given by guest to hosts) )
  2. 4. (son, young man, youth)
  3. 6. (the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house, or applied to a whole marae complex)
  4. 7. (native flightless bird)
  5. 9. (prestige, reputation)
  6. 13. (reptiles endemic to New Zealand and which, although resembling most lizards, are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia)
  7. 14. (the art and practise of speech-making )
  8. 15. (New Zealander of non-Māori descent, usually European)
  9. 17. (extended family)
  10. 18. (canoe, canoe group)
  11. 19. (tribe)
  12. 22. (genealogy, to recite genealogy )
  13. 24. (large native conifer)
  14. 25. (sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo)
  15. 26. (song or chant)
  16. 28. (generic term for Māori dance. )
  17. 29. (guests, visitors)
  18. 30. (mountain)
  19. 33. reo (language nest, Maori immersion pre-school (0 to 4 years))
  20. 35. (man, husband, men, husbands)
  21. 36. (traditional feast prepared in earth oven)
  22. 37. (small)
  23. 39. (sea)
  24. 41. (greenstone, jade)
Down
  1. 1. (belly, stomach)
  2. 2. (person of chiefly rank, boss )
  3. 5. (children)
  4. 8. (elder)
  5. 9. (indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand, the language of the indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand)
  6. 10. (land, homeland)
  7. 11. tupuna (ancestor )
  8. 12. (island)
  9. 15. (hill fort)
  10. 16. (walk)
  11. 20. (water)
  12. 21. (treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious)
  13. 22. (woman, wife)
  14. 23. (prayer)
  15. 25. (daughter)
  16. 27. (funeral)
  17. 28. (clan, sub-tribe; to be born )
  18. 29. (work or activity)
  19. 31. (large, many, big)
  20. 32. (extinct large flightless bird)
  21. 33. (food)
  22. 34. (gathering, meeting)
  23. 35. (to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans etc. )
  24. 38. reo Māori (the Māori Language)
  25. 40. (river)