mataʻu

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)takut, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)takut.

Noun

mataʻu

1. fear

Verb

mataʻu

1. to fear (feel fear about (something))

References

• 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.