utun.
/ˈʊtuː/, U.S. /ˈʊdu/, New Zealand English /ˈutu/, /ˈʊduː/ New Zealand.
a. Recompense, satisfaction, return or price paid for injuries received.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for injury
smart money1707
utu1828
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution
yieldinga1340
talion1412
retributiona1425
recompensec1425
recompensationa1513
requitement1548
retaliation1581
lex talionis1597
requital1597
retaling1597
taliationa1601
law of retalion1607
talio1611
retail1615
retorsion1637
repercussion1641
retributing1645
reddition1656
retortion1762
poetical justice1796
utu1828
retort1836
quits1865
poetic justice1991
1828 in W. Colenso Papers (typescript) III. 18 Until another chief has been killed as an utu or payment.
1840 J. S. Polack Manners & Customs New Zealanders II. 63 Utu or payment is invariably expected for any injustice committed [by the Maoris].
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. iv. 89 ‘Utu’, (which may be freely translated,) ‘blood for blood’, is with him [sc. the Maori] a sacred necessity.
1890 J. M. Moore N. Zealand iii. 49 The utu, or satisfaction for murder (lex talionis), theft, or any other crime,..was rigorously carried out among the Maoris.
b. transferred. (See quot. 1902.)
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1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Utu,..any compensation, as for services rendered; reward, payment, wages; often corrupted to hoot.
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