Etymology

ariki

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Today it means: A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia. Full definition →

Māori ariki ← Proto-Polynesian *qariki
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The story

  1. Proto-Polynesian · derived from*qariki
  2. Māori · borrowed fromariki
  3. English todayariki

Borrowed from Māori ariki, Proto-Polynesian *qariki.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.