Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn extended group of Maori kin groups or families, sharing common ancestry; a tribe. (An iwi is smaller than a waka and larger than a hapu.)
Borrowed from Māori iwi (literally “bone”), ultimately from Proto-Oceanic *suRi (“bone”).
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