kainga

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori kāinga.

noun

  1. A Maori village.
    When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […] 1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62

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