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Hawaiki

/ ˈhɑːwaɪkiː /

noun

  1. a legendary Pacific island from which the Māoris migrated to New Zealand by canoe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hawaiki1

Māori
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Example Sentences

One tribe declared that long ago in far-off Hawaiki a chief hated another, but was too weak to do him harm.

Another legend relates that in Hawaiki the people were fighting, and a tribe being beaten was forced to leave the island.

Tahiti seems to have been a center of dispersal, as Percy Smith has pointed out in his interesting book "Hawaiki."

A Rarotongan legend relates that in Hawaiki two new fruits were found, and the vari discarded.

The seed of our coming is from Hawaiki; the seed of our nourishing, the seed of mankind.

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