reanga

Maori

Etymology

From rea (“to spring out, to multiply”) +‎ -nga.[1]

Noun

reanga

  1. generation, the members of a family from the same parents

References

  1. ^ Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata (March 2019) “The Terminology of Whakapapa”, in Journal of the Polynesian Society‎[1], volume 128, number 1, pages 25-7

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “rea”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 388
  • “reanga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.