tohunga means A Māori chosen to be a specialist in a specific skilled field; especially, a priest. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Why “tohunga” is a great word
TOHUNGA — [Noun] A Māori person formally chosen as a specialist or expert in a particular skilled field, especially a priest or healer. From Māori tohunga ("skilled person, chosen expert, priest, healer"), possibly derived from tohu ("to guide or direct"). Unlike a kaumātua, whose authority stems from seniority and communal leadership, or a generic priest, whose role is confined to the religious, a tohunga is a culturally specific conduit of integrated mastery, chosen to bind the practical to the spiritual. He is the hand that guides the adze to carve the prow of a waka, the healer whose prayers are inseparable from a knowledge of plants, and the navigator who reads star paths as a sacred text—the appointed point where ancestral wisdom touches the work of human hands, and all deep craft becomes a sacred trust.
Etymology
From Māori tohunga (“skilled person, chosen expert, priest, healer”).
noun
- A Māori chosen to be a specialist in a specific skilled field; especially, a priest.“Those who became tohunga did so not simply voluntarily, but because they displayed aptitudes at an early age which indicated to their elders that they had been chosen by deities to perform particular functions […].”