Where does “whiunga” come from?

whiunga (Maori) comes from Maori -nga — Nominalizing suffix used to form derivate nouns.

Ancestry of “whiunga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Maori-ngaNominalizing suffix used to form derivate nouns
Every word from Maori -nga
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