Sentence:  Among the Maori sovereignty was the result of <WSD>"mana</WSD>"—power based on hereditary rank and personal achievement. <WSD>"Manas</WSD>" could coexist and overlap, as they did in the medieval times in Europe. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Power, prestige; "specifically", a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people. (from 19th c.)