Taewan

Marshallese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English Taiwan, from earlier Tayuan, Tayoan, or other variants, from Siraya tau (“people”) + an (“place”).

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [tˠɑːɛwɑnʲ], (enunciated) [tˠɑ ɛwɑnʲ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /tˠæɰjɛwænʲ/
  • Bender phonemes: {tahyewan}

Derived terms

Proper noun

Taewan

  1. Taiwan (a partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands)

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.