ngai

/ əŋˈɡɑːiː /

prefix

1. clan or tribe: used before the names of certain Māori tribes

   Ngai Tahu

Word History and Origins

Origin of ngai¹

Māori

Example Sentences

What makes Ngai's discussion novel is her application of the "cute" to highbrow poetry.

From The Daily Beast

Once you read Ngai's account of it, you'll see "zany" everywhere.

From The Daily Beast

Characteristically, Ngai adduces two very different examples of the zany: Lucille Ball and Friedrich Nietzsche.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed what's most depressing about Ngai's terms is their smallness, their triviality.

From The Daily Beast

For Ngai, the zany is an aesthetic about the withering of sensibility.

From The Daily Beast

The tu, of course, is non-radical, the Gudang form being ngai.

From Project Gutenberg

So Ko-Ngai returned home sorrowful at heart; but she kept secret all that she had heard, and told no one what she had done.

From Project Gutenberg

Natta ngai padlo ngaityarniappi; watteyernaurlo tappandi ngaityo parni tatti.

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Apparently all those people, being Ngai-Tai, were of one tribal identity.

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Much etiquette was observed in the method of our admission into Hoa Ngai.

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