Where does “tikanga” come from?

tikanga (Maori) comes from Maori tika, from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tika.

tikanga (Maori): custom, convention, correct manner of doing...

Definitions

  1. custom, convention, correct manner of doing...

Ancestry of “tikanga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Maoritika—
2Proto-Eastern Polynesian*tika—

Words derived from “tikanga”

Every word from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tika →Every word from Maori tika →