Polynesian
- relating to Polynesia, its people, or their languages
noun
- a person from Polynesia
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English Polynesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Polynesian From Polynesia + -an.
- Of, from, or pertaining to Polynesia.
name
Etymology: Etymology tree English Polynesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Polynesian From Polynesia + -an.
- A language group spoken by these people.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English Polynesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Polynesian From Polynesia + -an.
- A person from Polynesia.
“He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.”
“Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2).”