fetiʻa

See also: feti'a

Tahitian

Etymology

Displaced earlier fetū because of tapu by association with names of certain royalty.

Noun

fetiʻa

star
medal

References

Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
“fetiʻa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

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