1836 J. A. Wilson Missionary Life & Work N.Z. (1889) iii. 34 Here we found many wailing over a dead body... As we passed some left the tangi and joined us.

1844 S. Selwyn 10 Apr. in A. Drummond Married & Gone to N.Z. (1960) 113 Nothing to disturb us but the incessant tangi of the children at night.

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventures N.Z. I. vii. 194 They..bore it [a corpse]..to the village, where the usual tangi took place.

1883 F. S. Renwick Betrayed 41 'Tis the tangi floats on the sea-borne breeze, In its echoing notes of wild despair.

1901 Scotsman 9 Apr. 6/5 The..Agent-General for New Zealand recently received from the Maori inhabitants of his colony a ‘tangi’ or ‘lament’ on the death of Queen Victoria.

1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 278 Our college graduate arrives; the home-coming tangi and nose-greeting is over; the guest meal set out on the floor.

1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 56 When we refer to holding a tangi about a setback or problem we are putting another Maori term into colloquial use.

1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira xviii. 172 The tangi mourning ceremonies.

1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat ii. 42 She said to me, ‘Come on Joe, we'll have a tangi together.’

1844 M. Williams 17 Oct. in A. Drummond Married & Gone to N.Z. (1960) 39 I could not think how I had consented, and tangied over his preparations.

1864 A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 19 Apr. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 107 She sat down, began tangi-ing,..& so they remained for some minutes.

1873 J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands x. 168 The old man,..enumerating the different degrees of relationship he stood in to the deceased, and his appreciation of his virtues, ‘tangiéd’ again to such an extent, that another relation, affected at his extreme grief, presented him with a horse.

1881 J. L. Campbell Poenamo vii. 201 Those who had tangied over Ngatai had to come and tangi over Te Pirete.

1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme xiii. 224 ‘She's going to tangi.’ ‘To wail..to lament the dead.’

1854 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 10 467 Mr. Loftus..explains the great clefts or ‘Tangs’ (as they are termed in Persian) which pass through the elongated limestone saddles. These tangs are very numerous.]

1901 Mem. Geol. Surv. India XXXI. 188 Narrow gorges or rifts locally called ‘tangi’.

1923 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 221/2 The river emerged through a narrow Tangi in the hills.

1954 O. H. K. Spate India & Pakistan xvi. 425 Tangis or transverse clefts, often only a few yards wide, by which the streams penetrate the longitudinal ridges.

1983 J. Masters Man of War x. 125 The Wazirs will try to ambush us... I've been marking my map with every likely gully and tangi.