nuinga
1. (noun) majority, larger part.
Otirā i turi te nuinga ki tana kupu, nō reira ka tīkina e ia tana pū hurihuri, ka mea, mehemea ka tohe rātou ka pūhia e ia, turi tonu tētahi o ngā tāngata, pūhia ana e ia ka tū ki te hūwhā (TWMNT 14/5/1873:53). / But the majority were deaf to his statement, and so he went and got his revolver and said that if they persisted he would shoot them and one of the men still would not listen so he shot him wounding him in the thigh.
2. (noun) people.
Ka hoki a Pāoa ki ōna hoa, ki tōna nuinga (NM 1928:167). / Pāoa returned to his friends and his people.
Synonyms: tētahi tangata, tāngata, pori, hanga, ētahi tāngata, iwi, hunga
