Etymology

kaumatua

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Today it means: In Māori culture, an elder; a respected older person. Full definition →

Māori kaumātua
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromkaumātua“adult, elder”
  2. English todaykaumatua

Borrowed from Māori kaumātua (“adult, elder”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.