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Ngāi
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ngāi Ngāi- Ngai
English
Alternative forms
en Kāi Ngaai Ngai Ngāi-
Etymology
From en mi Ngāti.
Noun
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Descent group marker used in iwi or hapū names beginning with T.
en Ngāti
Māori
Alternative forms
mi Kāi Ngaai Ngai Ngāi-
Etymology
Reduction of mi Ngāti before /t/.
Noun
Descent group marker used in iwi or hapū names beginning with T.
mi Ngāti
mi March 1862 Te Moana Pounamu Maori Messenger: Te Karere Maori 2 7 10 Kauaka o matou hoa a Ngaitahu, a Ngatitama, a Ngatimamoe, a Ngatiawa, e whakaaro, tenei a Kawana Ta Hori Kerei te wareware nei, te whakarere rukaruka nei i a ratou. Let not our friends of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mamoe, and Ngāti Awa think that Governor Sir George Grey is forgetting them or carelessly abandoning them.
mi 1 April 1876 Reta i tukua mai Te Wananga 3 12 155 Ko Ngai Teki te Hapu, ko nga tangata tenei Ngāi Teki is the hapū, these are the people
mi 1899 w:Takaanui Tarakawa Nga mahi a Te Wera, me Nga-Puhi hoki, ki Te Tai-Rawhiti Journal of the Polynesian Society 8 234 Ka rewa mai, a, ka u ki Tauranga, ka korerotia atu e Ngai-Te Rangi He set sail and landed at Tauranga, and the people of Te Rangi said to him
mi September 1997 Te Whare Karakia Mihinare ki Puāri - Koukourarata: The Anglican Māori Church at Port-Levy Matiu Payne Te Karaka: The Ngāi Tahu Magazine 6 43 Ko Ḵai Tahu te iwi Ngāi Tahu is my iwi
mi 2017 Kōrero: Ngāi Tūhoe w:Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ngai-tuhoe Ka moemoe rātou ki ngā iwi tōmua, ka puta te iwi ka mōhiotia i ēnei rā, ko Ngāi Tūhoe. They intermarried with the original people and over time the Tūhoe people emerged https://web.archive.org/web/20260826080210/https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ngai-tuhoe 26 August 2026
Derived terms
en Ngāi Tahu Ngāi Tai Ngāi Takoto Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāi Tūhoe
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