mataʻu
Tahitian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)takut, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)takut.
Noun edit
mataʻu
Verb edit
mataʻu
- to fear (feel fear about (something))
References edit
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “mataʻu” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.