Aotearoaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Māori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.

発音

• IPA: (New Zealand) /aʊ.tɪəˈrɐʉ.a/, (prescribed) /aʊ.teəˈroː.a/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɑː.əʊ.teəˈrəʊ.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌaʊ.ti.əˈɹoʊ.ə/, /ˌɑ.oʊ.ti.əˈroʊ.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA: /aʊˌtæɪ.əˈrɐʉ.ə/

固有名詞

Aotearoa (chiefly New Zealand)

1. (obsolete) The North Island of New Zealand.

   Synonym: North Island

   • 1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs‎:

     he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.

2. New Zealand, a country in Oceania; the Māori name, used especially in a Polynesian or precolonial context.

   Synonyms: Aotearoa New Zealand, New Zealand

   • 1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz, “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”:

     Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877:

     The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.

   • 2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic‎, via YouTube:

     You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.

   • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:

     There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.

   • 2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 16 October 2021, Asia Pacific:

     "We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service.

   • 2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

     In 2012, the two moved from Wellington back to the town where Jones was born, Kaitāia, in Aotearoa’s northern reaches.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Aotearoa.

派生語

参考

• Kiwi

Further reading

• H. W. Orsman, editor (1997), The Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles, Auckland: Oxford University Press
• T. Deverson, G. Kennedy, editors (2005), The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary, Victoria: Oxford University Press
• M. King (2004), The Penguin History of New Zealand, Auckland: Penguin Books