iwi
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Maori iwi (literally “bone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
iwi (plural iwis or iwi)
- (New Zealand) A Maori tribe.
- 1996, Diane Bell, Renate Klein, Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed (page 505)
- Through her, the women of my iwi are also beautiful, strong and powerful.
- 1996, Diane Bell, Renate Klein, Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed (page 505)
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Noun
iwi
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic *suʀi/ruʀi (“thorn, splinter, fish bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).
Noun
Maia
Noun
iwi
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic *suʀi/ruʀi (“thorn, splinter, fish bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).
Noun
iwi
- extended kinship group, tribe, nation, people, nationality, race (often refers to a large group of people descended from a common ancestor and associated with a distinct territory)
- strength, bone
Derived terms
- aukati iwi (“racism”)
- iwi kāinga (“local people, hosts, home crowd”)
- Iwi Poa (“Afrikaners, Boers - South Africans of Dutch descent”)
- iwi taketake (“indigenous people, native people”)
- iwi whānui (“general population, public”)
- iwi whenua (“indigenous people, native people”)
- kaiwhakawhanaunga ā-iwi (“race relations conciliator”)
- Mana Whakahaere ā-Iwi (“Iwi Authority”)
- patu iwi (“bone weapon, weapon for destroying people; genocide”)
- poutoko iwi (“community leader”)
- reo ā-iwi (“dialect, tribal dialect”)
- rūnanga ā-iwi (“tribal council”)
- Tari Tiaki Iwi (“Public Trust”)
- tikanga ā-iwi (“cultural practice, social science, tribal custom”)
- Tira Ahu Iwi (“Iwi Transition Agency”)
- tūreiti e te iwi (“too late”)
- Ngā Iwi (“a tribe that once lived in the Auckland”)
- Whakaratonga Iwi (“New Zealand Fire Service”)
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