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单词 tahitian
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Tahitianadj.n.

/tɑːˈhiːʃən//tɑːˈhiːtɪən/
Forms: Also Tahitan, †Taitian, †Taitienne.
Etymology: < Tahiti n. + -an suffix; compare Otaheitan 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.
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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).
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