It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the whole country before the arrival of Europeans, with Aotearoa originally referring to just the North Island.
我们不知道，在欧洲人到来之前，毛利人是否已经有一个名字来统称整个国家，是否"Aotearoa"在那时仅仅是指新西兰北岛。