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wānanga

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *fanaŋa (“story for entertainment, short repetitive chant”) – compare with Rapa Nui vānanga (“language”), Hawaiian wānana and wālana (both “prophecy, prediction”), Tahitian vānaʻa (“knowledge”) and vanaʻa (“lore, story”).[1][2][3]

Noun

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wānanga

  1. (obsolete) sacred ancestral medium
  2. person who is knowledgeable in traditional lore
  3. traditional knowledge, lore
  4. conference, forum or seminar
  5. instructor or expert

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → English: wananga

Verb

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wānanga (passive wānangahia or wānangatia)

  1. to meet and discuss
  2. to consider or deliberate

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 594
  2. ^ Wilson, William H. (2012 December) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎[2], volume 51, number 2, page 305
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D. (2023) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People, Society, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 212; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

Further reading

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  • “wānanga” 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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