fetiʻa
See also: feti'a
Tahitian
Etymology
Displaced earlier fetū because of tapu by association with names of certain royalty.
Noun
fetiʻa
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.