runanga

See also: Runanga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori runanga (“assembly, council”).

Noun

runanga (plural runangas)

  1. (New Zealand) A traditional Māori assembly or tribal council. [from 19th c.]
    • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 317:
      Ngāi Tahu with education and some familiarity with the Pākehā world exerted pressure on their rangatira and on tribal rūnanga to seek compensation from the Crown for these grievances.

Maori

Etymology

From runa (“to tie together, to gather”) +‎ -nga.

Noun

runanga

  1. assembly, council

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “runanga”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 410
  • “runanga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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