Etymology

Aotearoa

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Today it means: The North Island of New Zealand. Full definition →

Māori Aotearoa
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromAotearoa“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”
  2. English todayAotearoa

Borrowed from Māori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.

Words from the same roots

MāoriAotearoa all →

Land of the Long White Cloud

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.