The story
- Proto-Polynesian · derived from*fafine
- Māori · borrowed fromwahine“woman”
- English todaywahine
Borrowed from Māori wahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
wahine
Today it means: A woman, particularly a Polynesian or Maori one. Full definition →
Māori wahine ← Proto-Polynesian *fafine