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English
Etymology
From Maori runanga.
Noun
runanga (plural runangas)
- (New Zealand) A traditional Māori assembly or tribal gathering.
Maori
Etymology
From runa (“to tie together, to gather”) + -nga.
Noun
runanga
- assembly, council
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “runanga”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 410
- “runanga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.