fetiʻa

See also: feti'a

Tahitian

Etymology

Displaced earlier fetū because of tapu by association with names of certain royalty.

Noun

fetiʻa

  1. (euphemistic) star
  2. medal

References

  • Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
  • “fetiʻa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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