tá

to tattoo ( = tatú), to tattoo pictures on the skin, also: he-tá ite kona, tá-kona.

to weave (a net): he-tá i te kupega.

to shake something, moving it violently up and down and from one side to the other; he-tá e te tokerau i te maga miro, the wind shakes the branches of the trees; also in the iterative form: e-tá-tá-ana e te tokerau i te tôa, the wind continuously shakes the leaves of the sugarcane.

to pull something up suddently, for instance, an eel just caught, dropping it at once on a stone and killing it: he-tá i te koreha.