polynesian
/pˌɑlˌɪnˈiʒən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to Polynesia.
name
A language group spoken by these people.
Example Sentences
- "He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain."
- "Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2)."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Polynesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Polynesian From Polynesia + -an.