wordtatau
tatau · Samoan
tatau
What it is
The Polynesian word English borrowed. Cook's crew wrote it down in 1769 and it displaced every English word for the practice.
Root
The Polynesian word English borrowed. Cook's crew wrote it down in 1769 and it displaced every English word for the practice.
Named here by
- What the word means first Strike.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Peʻa — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Peʻa — Wikipedia (en)
- James Cook — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there