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Pakeha Maori en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori pākehā Māori, itself made of pākehā (“a foreigner, a European”) and Māori.

Meanings

1. (New-Zealand, historical) Someone of European descent who has adopted a Maori way of life.
   • Of the original Pākehā Māori, Thomas Taylor was one of four crew members who ran away from the Sydney-based vessel Hunter in the course of a timber-gathering expedition up the Waihou River in 1798. 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 105:

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