tauiwi
Britishnoun
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Origin of tauiwi
Māori, literally: foreign race
Example Sentences
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“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.”
From New York Times
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