英和和英

語源

From Polynesia +‎ -an.

発音

• 韻: -iːʒən

形容詞

Polynesian (comparative more Polynesian, superlative most Polynesian)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Polynesia.

派生語

名詞

Polynesian (plural Polynesians)

1. A person from Polynesia.
   • 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 8 June 2021:

     He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.

   • 2008, Andrew David Grainger, The Browning of the All Blacks: Pacific Peoples, Rugby, and the Cultural Politics of Identity in New Zealand‎, page 326:

     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).

派生語

固有名詞

Polynesian

1. A language group spoken by these people.

派生語