pakeha

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pakeha^¹

noun pakehas · pakeha

Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha The same director's film The Quiet Earth (1984), from a novel by Craig Harrison, lands us back in futuristic territory with a pakeha "mad scientist" (plus female pendant for "mateship" interest) and a Vietnam-scarred Maori guerrilla surviving a cosmic catastrophe.

Pakeha^²

/ˈpaːkehaː/ New Zealand
/ˈpaːkəhaː/ New Zealand
/ˈpaːkɪə/ New Zealand, archaic

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Māori pākehā (“stranger”).

proper noun pakeha

New Zealand A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander. They were the kind of Pākehā who, in the eyes of the Protestant missionaries, set a bad example to Māori.

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@misc{pakeha_2026,
  title = {pakeha},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pakeha},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}