Paama

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Paama

1. A small island dominated by hills in the province of Malampa, Vanuatu.
   • 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 78:

     The next mission station for us to visit was on Paama Island, where Alison Todd, an Australian nursing sister, was stationed. Alison is tall and very definite in her manner. She had worked on the island of Tanna and also at PMH before going to Paama.

2. The Paamese language.

Derived terms

• Paamese

Translations

small island of Vanuatu

• Paama: Voum, Vaum (South)

language of Paama

• Paama: lanūs

References

• Terry Crowley, A dictionary of Paamese, 1992

Anagrams

• Amapá