Etymology

kawanatanga

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Today it means: governance; governorship Full definition →

Māori kāwanatanga ← English governor
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The story

  1. English · derived fromgovernor
  2. Māori · borrowed fromkāwanatanga
  3. English todaykawanatanga

Borrowed from Māori kāwanatanga; the first part of the word is a borrowed form of English governor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.