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Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *taliŋa (compare with Maori taringa, Fijian daliga), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taliŋa (compare with Malay telinga).[1]
Noun
tariʻa
- ear
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “taliga”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
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