Etymology

whanau

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Today it means: An extended family. Full definition →

Māori whānau
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromwhānau“extended family; genus”
  2. English todaywhanau

From Māori whānau (“extended family; genus”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.