I went to a malay food stall n saw this malay food called
tahu telor (might had mispell)

well lego adapted some of the names from the mouari language, but then the mouari people compained at lego for using their langage for a toy product, they thought it was disrespctful, and so lego stopped using their langage and life went on.

TaKuaN12 just said it all. But dude please don`t make fave topics with the same name.

they got all of there names from other places, they probobly just made the rahi names.

well the maori thing is right on, and they probably made up a whole lot

well lego is from holland so they maybe mixed up dutch to make names

Lego originally derived most of the Matoran names and some of the Toa names from the language of Maori. For example, Tahu means a veriaty of things in Maori, but one use for it is Flame. And Nui means great, hence Mata Nui, and various Rahi Nui combiners. The Maori thought that Lego was benefieting from their culture and heritiage, and threated a lawsuit. Thus, Lego had to drop some of their names, the most noteably being Tohunga changed to Matoran. Also, Lego changed the spellings of some Matoran's names, like Jala to Jaller and so forth. That should explain.

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