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Fijian
Etymology
From virita (“to throw”) + lawalawa (“cobweb”); latter from Proto-Oceanic *lawaq₂ (“spider”) (Maori whakarawa (“to fasten”), Hawaiian lawa (“to bind”), Tongan lalava (“to fasten with a sennit, to wrap”)) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq (“spider”) (compare with Malay labah-labah and lelabah, Tagalog alalawa).
Noun
viritalawalawa
- spider
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References
- ^ Gatty, Ronald (2009) “viritalawalawa”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 300
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lawa2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online