Etymology

kohanga reo

Today it means: A kindergarten designed to immerse children in Maori language and culture. Full definition →

Māori kōhanga reo
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromkōhanga reo
  2. English todaykohanga reo

From Māori kōhanga reo, literally "language nest", from kōhanga (“nest”) + reo (“language”).

Words from the same roots

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language nest

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.