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Melanesian en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *mélh₂ns Proto-Hellenic *mélans Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas)lbor. Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos)lbor. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French Mélanésiebor. English Melanesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Melanesian From Melanesia + -an.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to Melanesia.
   • While Melanesian cannibals make "long pig," barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder […] 2002, William C. Miller, Long Pig:

Deriveds

Australo-Melanesian

Translations (13)

ga Meilinéiseach (referring to Melanesia) · ca melanesi (referring to Melanesia) · ru меланези́йский (referring to Melanesia) · it melanesiano (referring to Melanesia) · tl Timpuluanin (referring to Melanesia) · sv melanesisk (referring to Melanesia) · fi melanesialainen (referring to Melanesia) · pt melanésio (referring to Melanesia) · pl melanezyjski (referring to Melanesia) · nb melanesisk (referring to Melanesia) · fr mélanésien (referring to Melanesia) · nn melanesisk (referring to Melanesia) · es melanesio (referring to Melanesia)

Melanesian en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *mélh₂ns Proto-Hellenic *mélans Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas)lbor. Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos)lbor. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French Mélanésiebor. English Melanesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Melanesian From Melanesia + -an.

Meanings

1. A Melanesian person.
   • 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). 2008, Andrew David Grainger, The Browning of the All Blacks: Pacific Peoples, Rugby, and the Cultural Politics of Identity in New Zealand, page 326:

Forms

Relateds

Melanesia

Translations (18)

tl Timpuluanin (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · ru меланези́йка (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · ca melanesi (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · ga Meilinéiseach (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · ru меланези́ец (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · fr Mélanésien (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · kk меланезиялық (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · it melanesiano (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · ca melanèsia (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · pl Melanezyjka (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · de Melanesierin (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · eo melanezianino (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · pl Melanezyjczyk (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · eo melaneziano (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · fi melanesialainen (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · de Melanesier (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · it melanesiana (person living in or coming from Melanesia) · fr Mélanésienne (person living in or coming from Melanesia)