Etymology

wharenui

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Today it means: An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex. Full definition →

Māori wharenui
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromwharenui
  2. English todaywharenui

Borrowed from Māori wharenui (literally “big house”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.