Etymology

wananga

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Today it means: A school in New Zealand that teaches native Maori knowledge, instituted by the Education Act of 1990. Full definition →

Māori wānanga
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromwānanga“traditional knowledge”
  2. English todaywananga

Borrowed from Māori wānanga (“traditional knowledge”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.