Where does “Ngāti” come from?

Ngāti (Maori) comes from Proto-Celtic -āti, from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ti — Forms factitive verbs from adjective stems.

Ancestry of “Ngāti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celtic-ātiForms verbs from nouns and adjectives
2Proto-Indo-European-h₂tiForms factitive verbs from adjective stems

Words derived from “Ngāti”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ti →Every word from Proto-Celtic -āti →