tohutō

English

Etymology

From Māori tohutō.

Noun

tohutō (plural tohutō)

  1. (orthography) A macron in Maori.
    • 2022 September 22, Alisha Evans, “Ōmokoroa finally gets a macron after school kids campaign”, in Stuff‎[1], Wellington, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 September 2022:
      The class also wanted to get local businesses on board to change their signage to reflect the tohutō.
    • 2022 October 3, Tamara Poi-Ngawhika, “NZ Post moves to recognise Māori macrons and new words”, in Te Ao Māori News‎[2], Auckland: Māori Television Service, archived from the original on 30 November 2025:
      NZ 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 22, “Ōmokoroa Point School‘s new billboard design”, in SunLive‎[3], Tauranga: SunMedia, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2022:
      The new billboard design will also feature a tohutō on the O of Ōmokoroa, following a successful campaign by Ōmokoroa Point School’s Room 10.
    • 2023 March 26, Pokere Paewai, “Conversation with son leads to creation of integrated Māori keyboard”, in Radio New Zealand‎[4], Wellington, archived from the original on 25 March 2023:
      A new integrated Māori keyboard will help to increase the visibility and use of tohutō.
    • 2024 November 11, Spiral Collectives, “Introduction”, in Keri Hulme: Our Kuru Pounamu, 3rd edition, Wellington: Spiral Collectives, →ISBN, page xvi:
      Tohutō 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.

Māori

Alternative forms

  • tohutoo

Etymology

From tohu (“sign”).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /tohuˈtoː/ [tɔhʉˈtoː]

Noun

tohutō

  1. macron
    Synonyms: hahae, pōtae

Further reading

  • “tohutō” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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