Etymology

Wanganui

W4A1N1G2A1N1U1I1

Today it means: A city and territorial authority in Manawatū-Whanganui region, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. Full definition →

Māori Whanganui
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  1. Māori · borrowed fromWhanganui
  2. English todayWanganui

From Māori Whanganui. The spelling of Sense 1 and Sense 2 reflects a dialectal realization of the ⟨wh⟩ phoneme as [ˀw] in Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.