tauiwi

/ taʊˈiːwɪ /

noun

1. a Māori term for the non-Māori people of New Zealand

Word History and Origins

Origin of tauiwi¹

Māori, literally: foreign race

Example Sentences

“But more than anything, from my perspective, this is finally something that can be acknowledged by other Maori, by tauiwi” — non-Indigenous New Zealanders — “and by people around the world.”

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