Meanings
- communicationsA macron in Maori.
A new integrated Māori keyboard will help to increase the visibility and use of tohutō.
2023 March 26, Pokere Paewai, “Conversation with son leads to creation of integrated Māori keyboard”, in Radio New Zealand, Wellington, archived from the original on 25 Mar 20234 more examples
The class also wanted to get local businesses on board to change their signage to reflect the tohutō.
2022 September 22, Alisha Evans, “Ōmokoroa finally gets a macron after school kids campaign”, in Stuff, Wellington, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2022NZ Post chief customer officer Bryan Dobson said that they understand that tohutō in te reo Māori are an essential element of the Māori alphabet and were trying to make their system compatible.
2022 October 3, Tamara Poi-Ngawhika, “NZ Post moves to recognise Māori macrons and new words”, in Te Ao Māori News, Auckland: Māori Television Service, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2025The new billboard design will also feature a tohutō on the O of Ōmokoroa, following a successful campaign by Ōmokoroa Point School’s Room 10.
2022 October 22, “Ōmokoroa Point School‘s new billboard design”, in SunLive, Tauranga: SunMedia, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022Tohutō denote long vowels when the original document has them. Keri wrote her letters to us on a typewriter, with no tohutō option, and sometimes added tohutō by hand, as with ‘He Hōhā’, sometimes not. When she typed ‘Ōkārito’, if she added a tohutō it was usually only to the ‘Ō’. Others also omit tohutō.
2024 November 11, Spiral Collectives, “Introduction”, in Keri Hulme: Our Kuru Pounamu, 3rd edition, Wellington: Spiral Collectives, →ISBN, page xvi
Origin
- Māoritohutō
- Māoritohutō
- Englishtohutō
Borrowed from Māori tohutō.
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tohutō. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tohut%C5%8D
“tohutō.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tohut%C5%8D. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tohutō,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tohut%C5%8D.
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