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The following Māori words exist as loanwords in English. Many of them concern endemic New Zealand flora and fauna that were known prior to the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand. Other terms relate to Māori customs. All of these words are commonly encountered in New Zealand English, and several (such as ''kiwi'') are widely used across other varieties of English, and in other languages. In general, words that are written with macrons in Māori are written without macrons in New Zealand English, though the macron is becoming more widely used in New Zealand English. ==Flora and fauna== The accepted English common names of a number of species of animal and plant endemic to New Zealand are simply their Māori names or a close equivalent: ; huhu : a type of large beetle ; huia : a recently extinct bird, much prized traditionally by Māori for its feathers ; kākā : a native parrot ; kākāpō : a rare native bird ; kahikatea : a type of large tree ; ''Kaiwhekea'' : a type of prehistoric plesiosaur ; katipo : a venomous native spider ; kauri : large conifer in the Araucariaceae ; kea : a parrot, the world's only alpine parrot ; kererū : the native wood pigeon ; kina : the sea-urchin, eaten as a delicacy ; kiwi : the bird, a New Zealander, or (but not in New Zealand English) kiwi fruit ; kōkako : a rare type of bird ; kowhai : a type of flowering tree ; kūmara : sweet potato ; mako : a shark, considered a magnificent fighting game fish ; mamaku : a type of large tree fern ; moa : extinct giant flightless bird ; pāua : abalone ; pōhutukawa : a type of flowering tree ; ponga (also spelt ''punga'') : the silver fern, often used as a symbol for New Zealand ; pukeko : a wading bird, the purple swamphen ; rātā : a type of flowering tree ; rimu : a tree, the red pine ; takahē : a rare wading bird ; toheroa : a shellfish ; tōtara : an evergreen tree ; tuatara : rare lizard-like reptile, not closely related to any other living species ; tui : the parsonbird ; weka : a flightless bird of the rail family ; weta : a large native insect, similar to a cricket ; whekī : a type of tree fern 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of English words of Māori origin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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