kinakin.

1820 Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. (Church Missionary Soc.) 164 Kinaki, victuals, added for variety's sake.

1873 T. Chapman in W. L. Buller Hist. Birds N.Z. 93 Norway rats..by diving for these freshwater pipis, provide a kinaki (relish) for their vegetable suppers.

1879 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1878 11 76 Fifty years back it would have been a poor hapu that could not afford a slave or two as a kinaki, or relish, on such an occasion.

1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 17 If his kinaki (relish) were fish, his predatory instincts invented the means to catch them.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira x. 70 This man's body..was eaten as a relish—kinaki—with the fern-root.

1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. i. 110 Less difficulty was experienced in providing the meat complement, or kinaki, to go with the vegetable foods.