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Moriori

noun

Meaning

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Moriori.
  2. The language of these people.
  3. A member of the indigenous Polynesian people of the Chatham Islands.

Etymology / origin

Derived from Proto-Polynesian *ma(a)qoli (“true, genuine, real, native”). Compare Maori.

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