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  2. List of English words of Māori origin - Wikipedia

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    a type of large beetle huia a recently extinct bird, much prized traditionally by Māori for its feathers kākā a native parrot kākāpō a rare native bird kahikatea a type of large tree katipō a venomous native spider kauri large conifer in the Araucariaceae kea a parrot, the world's only alpine parrot kererū the native wood pigeon kina

  3. List of English words of Maori origin - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; List of English words of Maori origin

  4. Talk:List of English words of Māori origin - Wikipedia

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    There is a basic flaw in this article. The title is: "List of English words of Māori origin" and the opening sentence says: "The following Māori words exist as loanwords in English" Well, what is it, a list of English words or Maori words? The key word to focus on is 'assimilation'. Roger 8 Roger 19:19, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  5. Cook Islands Māori - Wikipedia

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    Cook Islands Maori English Word-to-word and gloss au Ka ʻaere au ki te ʻāpiʻi āpōpō listen ⓘ I'm going to school tomorrow. (unaccomplished asp.)/ go / I / (prep. goal/destination) / the / learn / tomorrow Ka ʻārote au inanaʻi, nō te ua rā, kua ʻakakore au: I was going to do the ploughing yesterday, but gave it up because of the rain.

  6. Māori language influence on New Zealand English - Wikipedia

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    The use of Māori words in New Zealand English has increased since the 1990s, [2] [3] and English-language publications increasingly use macrons to indicate long vowels. [4] Māori words are usually not italicised in New Zealand English, and most publications follow the Māori-language convention of the same word for singular and plural (e.g ...

  7. A korao no New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The word korao would today be written kōrero. [1] A Korao was written as an aid to educate Māori children and convert them to Christianity. It features phrases, word lists and religious instruction. The children would recite the alphabet and syllables, in hopes of learning reading and writing. [2]

  8. Māori phonology - Wikipedia

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    In addition to word stress, Māori has phrasal stress that falls on the second to last mora: [23] Ko te rangatíra, o tēnei márae ('the rangatira of this marae') Ko te maráe, o tēnei rángatira ('the marae of this rangatira') This rule can also be applied to words that were formed by adding productive passive and nominalisation suffixes: [23]

  9. Iwi - Wikipedia

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    In Māori and in many other Polynesian languages, iwi literally means ' bone ' [8] derived from Proto-Oceanic *suRi₁ meaning ' thorn, splinter, fish bone '. [9] Māori may refer to returning home after travelling or living elsewhere as "going back to the bones" — literally to the burial-areas of the ancestors.

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