wahinen.

1773 W. Bayly Jrnl. in R. McNab Hist. Rec. N.Z. (1914) II. 204 Their Whinies (or women) are not regular featured in general as the men.

1807 J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. xi. 74 Wyeena, a woman.

1841 N.Z. Jrnl. 2 No. 32. 92/2 The chiefs and ‘Wienas’, or wives, partook.

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. ii. 29 Having enquired how many [wives] the Kings of England had, he laughed heartily at finding they were not so well provided, and repeatedly counted ‘four wahine’ (women) on his fingers.

1863 V. Lush Jrnl. 28 Sept. (1971) 253 By noon the following day all the wahines had gone back to the Pah, cockles and all.

1911 W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush viii. 128 Two or three Wahines ply the men lustily with..somewhat broad banter.

1944 Coast to Coast 1943 105 You meet te nice girl at te dance. Plenty wahine!

1963 Times 7 Feb. 12/3 The warriors and their wahine turned away ‘towards God’, as I was told by an old Maori who sat with me on the grass.

1847 H. Bingham Residence Twenty-one Years Sandwich Islands 188 Give our aloha to all the new teachers and their wahines.

1865 H. W. Baxley What I saw on W. Coast of S. & N. Amer. 515 The wahine disputes with them the palm of superiority.

1963 Surfing Yearbk. 43/2 Wahini, a girl surfer.

1966 Surfer 7 39 There are other things he did on the board, too, especially the full-moon tandem rides with wahines.

1971 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 2 26 Wahine meaning woman in Hawaiian, a term popular among writers, has never been used in Cape Town.