单词 | tahitian |
释义 | Tahitianadj.n. A. adj. Of or pertaining to Tahiti, its inhabitants, or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Pacific islands > [adjective] Otaheitana1771 Tahitian1822 Fijian1846 Samoan1846 Micronesian1847 Niuean1868 Tonga1891 Gilbertese1893 Lifuan1917 Pascuan1940 Palauan1946 Belauan1974 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Pacific Islands > [adjective] > Tahiti Otaheite1769 Tahitian1822 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Polynesian languages Tahitian1822 Rarotongan1836 Niuean1924 Pascuan1940 Palauan1951 Pascuense1960 1822 tr. Malte-Brun's Universal Geogr. i. xxiii. 572 Tagalic, Taitienne languages, &c... The Taitian is distributed through all the small islands of the Great Ocean. 1825 W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii 244 Both in the Hawaiian and Tahitian languages, every syllable, and every word, ends with a vowel. 1847 Dublin Rev. Dec. 357 Numerous other matters of European manufacture..were strewn about among..the ordinary furniture of a Tahitian dwelling. 1852 J. Crawfurd Gram. & Dict. Malay Lang. I. p. cclix The names of the three plants are exactly according to the Tahitian pronunciation. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 156/2 The ivi or Tahitian chestnut (Inocarpus edulis). 1921 tr. W. Rathenau New Society iv. 26 When a European artist writes or paints in Tahiti, what he produces is not a work of Tahitian culture. 1958 Alaska Sportsman Dec. 34/3 The ‘cargodore’ is Chinese, two of the packers are Tahitan natives and the cook..is Chinese. 1980 London Mag. July 23 The ochre Tahitian soil of Gauguin's paintings. B. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Tahiti. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Pacific islands > [noun] Otaheitan1769 South Sea Islander1777 Pacific Islander1785 Polynesian1807 Fijian1809 Tahitian1825 Pitcairner1831 Rarotongan1837 Micronesian1847 Tongan1853 Samoan1856 Niuean1863 Solomon Islander1864 Lifuan1873 Cook Islander1888 Gilbertese1902 Nauruan1921 Trobriander1922 Pascuan1937 Palauan1946 Marshallese1948 Trobriand Islander1951 Belauan1974 Tuvaluan1975 1825 W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii 49 He [sc. Ellis] could not help stating to them the striking identity between theirs [sc. their traditions] and those of the Tahitians. 1859 N. Wiseman 12 Lect. Sci. & Relig. (ed. 6) I. 186 Charlevoix observed it among the Esquimaux,..Wallis among the Tahitans. 1918 L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker II. 483 He gratified Banks's philanthropic zeal by leaving in his care two Tahitians and two Maoris. 1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound i. 30 Sects including more or less of these elements have also appeared amongst the Tahitians. 1980 London Mag. July 24 Stevenson..and two Tahitians lolling among a pile of coconuts. 2. The Polynesian language spoken in Tahiti. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > Polynesian > Tahitian Otaheite1792 Tahitian1854 1822 : see the adj. above. ] 1854 J. Crawfurd in C. Bunsen Outl. Philos. Universal Hist. I. 427 A sentence in the Maori and Tahitian can be written in words common to both. 1914 R. Brooke Let. Apr. (1968) 572 My Greek is something rusty. Had it been Tahitian now, or Fijian. 1969 J. H. Vance Deadly Isles (1970) iii. 22 He would forget the songs and his few words of Tahitian. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1822 |
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