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Vinony

Fijian

proper noun

  1. Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji
  2. member of an ethnic group
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/ / /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an.

  1. Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.

    “[S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.”

name

Etymology: Etymology tree English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an.

  1. an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an.

  1. A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.