mataʻu
Tahitian
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *matakut, from Proto-Austronesian *matakut.
Noun
mataʻu
Verb
mataʻu
- to fear (feel fear about (something))
References
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “mataʻu” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.