vatu
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See also: våťü
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Raga vatu (“stone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vatu (plural vatus or vatu)
- The national currency of Vanuatu.
- 1998, Ademuni Odeke, Bareboat Charter (Ship) Registration, page 355:
- The unit of currency is the vatu (VUV) with no minor unit. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 vatu, and notes of 100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000 vatu. In March 1996 UK£1 = 172 vatu; US$1 = 113 vatu and DM1 = 76.38 vatu.
- 2000, International Monetary Fund, IMF Staff Country Report 00/129 Vanuatu - Recent Economic Developments, page 14:
- In November 1998 the Reserve Bank reintroduced the SRD[Statutory Reserve Deposit] at the rate of 10 percent on vatu deposits and reduced the PRA[Prescribed Reserve Asset] to 6 percent.
- 2007, Island States: Small Island States Handbook, Volume 1: Development Strategy and Programs, International Business Publications, USA, page 145,
- One estimate in 2007 for the total value of cattle heads sold was 135 million vatu; cattle were first introduced into the area from Australia by British planter James Paddon.
Anagrams
Bislama
Etymology
Borrowed from Raga vatu (“stone”).
Noun
vatu
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *vatu, from Proto-Oceanic *patu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.
Noun
vatu
Paiwan
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.
Noun
vatu
Uneapa
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *patu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.
Pronunciation
Noun
vatu
Further reading
- Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
- Pawley, Andrew and Malcolm Ross. 2006. The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View. In The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives.
- Sarah Elizabeth Byrne, A practice-centred approach to Uneapa Island's archaeology in a long-term context (2008). Oceania (vol. 87, no. 1). Ph.D. dissertation. University College London.