Talk:List of New Zealand place name etymologies

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This will be a very long list if we get stuck in! But I don't recommend that we split it into regions, because many names (eg Tasman and Waipu) are used all over the place. We might, however, add a link where any region or town gets its own list.

This originated from List of etymologies of country subdivision names, which should be checked from time to time to see if anything useful has been added – several regions were missing when this was set up.

Some countries have street name lists. That's a possibility here, but apply the same caution as in my first paragraph.
 * Robin Patterson 00:25, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Rakiura
Rakiura – raki: sky, ura: red – thought to be a reference to the Aurora Australis and unusual sunsets at these latitude

In common maori, the sky is "rangi" not "raki" so either that name comes from a special dialect of maori in which the ancient ng would have evoluted in K (like in north marquesan :sky = 'aki; south marquesan= 'ani) either the translation is wrong ? stefjourdan@caramail.com (user motunono in french wikipedia) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.173.190.18 (talk) 21:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Raki is "rangi" in the southern Māori dialect, and yes, in that dialect 'ng' has evoluted in K. Kahuroa 23:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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