fetū
Tahitian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *fetuqu (cognate with Hawaiian hōkū and Maori whetū), from Proto-Oceanic *pituqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bituqən, from Proto-Austronesian *bituqən (cognate with Tagalog bituin). Astronomical sense displaced later by fetiʻa due to tapu by association with names of certain royalty.
Noun edit
fetū
References edit
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “fetū” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.