The story
- Māori · borrowed fromkīngitanga“sovereignty”
- English todayKingitanga
Borrowed from Māori kīngitanga (“sovereignty”), from kīngi (“to reign”) + -tanga (abstract nominal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kingitanga
Today it means: A movement among certain Māori tribes in the 1850s, aiming to establish a status similar to monarch so as to halt the alienation of Māori land. Full definition →
Māori kīngitanga