iwi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori iwi (literally “bone”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈiːwi/

Noun

iwi (plural iwis or iwi)

  1. (New Zealand) A Maori tribe.
    • 1996, Diane Bell, Renate Klein, Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed (page 505)
      Through her, the women of my iwi are also beautiful, strong and powerful.

Anagrams

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Noun

iwi

  1. little brother

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic *suʀi/ruʀi (“thorn, splinter, fish bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).

Noun

iwi

  1. bone

Maia

Noun

iwi

  1. number

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic *suʀi/ruʀi (“thorn, splinter, fish bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).

Noun

iwi

  1. extended kinship group, tribe, nation, people, nationality, race (often refers to a large group of people descended from a common ancestor and associated with a distinct territory)
  2. strength, bone

Derived terms
  • aukati iwi (“racism”)
  • iwi kāinga (“local people, hosts, home crowd”)
  • Iwi Poa (“Afrikaners, Boers - South Africans of Dutch descent”)
  • iwi taketake (“indigenous people, native people”)
  • iwi whenua (“indigenous people, native people”)
  • iwi whānui (“general population, public”)
  • kaiwhakawhanaunga ā-iwi (“race relations conciliator”)
  • Mana Whakahaere ā-Iwi (“Iwi Authority”)
  • Ngā Iwi (“a tribe that once lived in the Auckland”)
  • patu iwi (“bone weapon, weapon for destroying people; genocide”)
  • poutoko iwi (“community leader”)
  • reo ā-iwi (“dialect, tribal dialect”)
  • rūnanga ā-iwi (“tribal council”)
  • Tari Tiaki Iwi (“Public Trust”)
  • tikanga ā-iwi (“cultural practice, social science, tribal custom”)
  • Tira Ahu Iwi (“Iwi Transition Agency”)
  • tūreiti e te iwi (“too late”)
  • Whakaratonga Iwi (“New Zealand Fire Service”)
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