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Fijian   /fˈidʒiən/   Listen
Fijian

adjective
(Written also Feejeean, Feejee)
1.
Of or relating to Fiji or its people or language or culture.  "Fijian folktales"





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"Fijian" Quotes from Famous Books



... goes without saying, on very different occasions and by very different objects, among different men and different groups. In the sixteenth century pious persons could watch heretics being burned in oil with a sense of deep religious exaltation. Certain Fijian tribes slaughter their aged parents with the most tender filial devotion. In certain savage communities, to eat in public arouses on the part of the individual ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman
... been confined. Now, the real body of Hawaiian folklore belongs to no isolated group, but to the whole Polynesian area. From New Zealand through the Tongan, Ellice, Samoan, Society, Rarotongan, Marquesan, and Hawaiian groups, fringing upon the Fijian and the Micronesian, the same physical characteristics, the same language, customs, habits of life prevail; the same arts, the same form of worship, the same gods. And a common stock of tradition has passed from mouth to mouth over the same area. In New Zealand, ...
— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous


Words linked to "Fijian" :   oceanic, Fiji, Polynesian, Republic of Fiji, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian


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