Aotearoa en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /aʊ.teəˈroː.a/ (literary)
- /aʊˌtæɪ.əˈrɐʉ.ə/ (Australia)
- /ˌaʊ.ti.əˈɹoʊ.ə/ (General-American)
- /aʊ.tɪəˈrɐʉ.a/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˌɑː.əʊ.teəˈrəʊ.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɑ.oʊ.ti.əˈroʊ.ə/ (General-American)
- (New-Zealand) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Māori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.
Meanings
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(New-Zealand, obsolete) The North Island of New Zealand.
he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.
1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs:
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(New-Zealand) New Zealand, a country in Oceania; the Māori name, used especially in a Polynesian or precolonial context.
In 2012, the two moved from Wellington back to the town where Jones was born, Kaitāia, in Aotearoa’s northern reaches.
2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.
2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic, via YouTube:There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.
2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877:Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistening like a pearl / at the bottom of the world [...].
1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz, “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”:"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service.
2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2021, Asia Pacific:
Deriveds
Aotearoan · Aotearoa New Zealand