English Explanatory Dictionary

Kingitanga

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A movement among certain Māori tribes in the 1850s, aiming to establish a status similar to monarch so as to halt the alienation of Māori land.

Word forms

Kingitanga

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori kīngitanga (“sovereignty”), from kīngi (“to reign”) + -tanga (abstract nominal suffix).

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