The story
- Māori · borrowed fromheihei“chicken”
- English todayHei Hei
Perhaps borrowed from Māori heihei (“chicken”), because of the history of farming in the area.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hei Hei
Today it means: A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Full definition →
Māori heihei