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Ngāi

Ngāi noun: descent group marker used in iwi or hapū names beginning with T.

Noun

Ngāi (uncountable)

  1. Descent group marker used in iwi or hapū names beginning with T.

Forms of Ngāi

alternative formKāi
alternative formNgaai
alternative formNgai
alternative formNgāi-

Origin of Ngāi

From Māori Ngāti.

Questions about Ngāi

What does Ngāi mean?
Ngāi means descent group marker used in iwi or hapū names beginning with T.
What part of speech is Ngāi?
Ngāi is a noun.

Words near Ngāi in the dictionary

  1. ngwees
  2. Ngwei
  3. Ngã Bảy
  4. Ngäbe
  5. Ngô Quyền
  6. Ngāi
  7. Ngāti
  8. NH
  9. NHA
  10. Nha Trang
  11. Nham

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ngāi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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