Etymology

atua

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Today it means: A spiritual being in Polynesian culture; a god or demon. Full definition →

Māori atua
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  1. Māori · borrowed fromatua
  2. English todayatua

From Māori atua. Compare Tahitian atua, Samoan atua, Hawaiian akua.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.