weleti
Fijian edit
Etymology edit
From the ship General Wellesley named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, which brought papayas from Penang and landed in Vanua Levu on October 1808 to obtain local sandalwood there. Cognate with Samoan ʻesi and Tongan lesi.
Noun edit
weleti
Derived terms edit
- leweti (by metathesis)