| 释义 |
Fijian, n. and a.|fiːˈdʒiːən|
Also 9 Feegeean, Feejeean, Fejean.
[f. Fiji, native name of the principal island of the Fiji archipelago + -an.]
A. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of the Fiji archipelago.
2. The language of the Fijian people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Fiji archipelago, the Fijians, or their language.
1809J. Davies Jrnl. Missionaries 16 Nov. in Im Thurn & Wharton Jrnl. W. Lockerby (1922) 135 What we have seen as yet of the Fejeans gives us no favourable opinion of them. 1838J. Williams Miss. Enterpr. S. Sea Isl. p. xviii, Cruel Rite of the Fijians. 1846in Wesleyan-Meth. Mag. (1847) Apr. 221/1 Thus is laid the foundation of another Feejeean war. 1856J. Lubbock Pre-Hist. Times xi. 356 The fortified towns of the Feegeeans had an earthen rampart. 1860Mrs. Smythe 10 Months in Fiji Isl. (1864) 112 He wrote a letter to him, which Mr. Waterhouse read aloud, in Fijian. 1861Ibid. 206 A narrow patch of ground supplies the wants of a Fijian household.
1875W. S. Jevons Money 25 Among our interesting fellow-subjects, the Fijians, whale's teeth served in the place of cowries. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 157/1 The Fijian character was till lately proverbial for every savage abomination. 1885R. H. Codrington Melanes. Lang. 4 It is desirable to use the term Polynesia strictly to indicate the region of the East Pacific to the West of which Melanesia begins with the Fijian group. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 423/2 In Fijian the word luve means either a son or a daughter. 1921W. Deane Fijian Soc. 208 It is at feast-time that the Fijian earns for himself the reputation of being a good eater. 1933Bloomfield Lang. iv. 71 The second, Melanesian, branch of Malayo-Polynesian includes many languages of smaller island groups, such as the languages of the Solomon Islands and Fijian. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. iii. 102 A Fijian woman had twins, and the mother's milk was not sufficient to feed them both. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 13 Today Indians bid fair to outnumber the native Fijians. 1965J. Knox-Mawer Gift of Islands ii. 15 Eroni repeated the question in Fijian. Ibid. v. 43 For the Fijians the grand climax of their stay came with an excursion to Windsor Castle. Ibid., The European had established himself as a permanent and familiar feature of Fijian life. |