Utu is a 3 letter English word.
You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Utu (tuu).
Utu—payment, satisfaction, revenge—summed up in a word the darker side of the Maori character.
The pakeha was drowning the Maori for (p. 23) Utu for himself, in case he should be drowned.
Utu took up his abode, as we have already noted, at MataUtu.
That, indeed, would be Utu—though long-deferred Utu—for his kinsmen who fell to the pakeha bullets at Rangiriri and Orakau!
That Utu account has not been squared; but only because of the inconveniently peaceful rule of the pakeha.
Ka taona koe ki te umu, he Utu mo taku tungane kua mate, ko Te Waka-tapa-ruru!
As to Utu, there is some doubt whether it represents a real pronunciation or not.
So Amlaud; and there seems some reason to believe that the name was used by the side of Utu, though perhaps only as an epithet.
Just as we were leaving the hut I had a look at the Utu —a fish I had never before seen.
The pakeha was drowning the Maori for Utu for himself, in case he should be drowned.