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Fijian

Fijian \Fi"ji*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants. -- n. A native of the Fiji islands. [Written also Feejeean, Feejee.]

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Fijian may refer to:

  • Something of, from, or related to the country of Fiji
  • The Fijians, persons from Fiji, or of Fijian descent. For more information about the Fijian people, see:
    • Demographics of Fiji
    • Culture of Fiji
  • The Fijian language
  • Fijian cuisine

Usage examples of "fijian".

Fison may after all be right in referring the partiality of a Fijian grandfather for his grandson in the last resort to a system of exogamy and female kinship.

It was quite necessary that the man should be hale and hearty, for it was his business to grapple with the Fijian Cerberus in the other world, while his majesty slipped past into the abode of bliss.

The Fijian rites of initiation seem to have been imported by Melanesian immigrants from the west.

It is, therefore, significant that the very same simulation figures prominently in the Fijian ceremony, nay it would seem to be the very pivot on which the whole ritual revolves.

By Fijian custom the lives of all castaways were forfeit, but the pretence to supernatural powers would have saved men full of the religious rites of their Melanesian home, and would have assured them a hearing.

His abode seems to have been generally placed in the Nakauvandra mountains, towards the western end of Viti Levu, the largest of the Fijian Islands.

This ferocious goblin lays himself out to catch the souls of bachelors, and so vigilant and alert is he that not a single unmarried Fijian ghost is known to have ever reached the mansions of the blest.

Path of the Souls were identified with real places in the Fijian Islands.

But the few who do find their way into the Fijian Elysium are blest indeed.

Williams in concluding that under the old Fijian dispensation there were few indeed that were saved.

Here he joined again in the local wars as the ally of one of the Fijian factions.

Eastern Polynesian story has place-names suggesting Samoan and Fijian backgrounds.

Yet apparently no Western Polynesian or Fijian settlers including women arrived and established a Western Polynesian or Fijian speech or culture before permanent settlers from Eastern Polynesia did so.

Grace, recently argued that the Fijian, Polynesian and Rotuman languages derive from a common ancestral language which had itself come from Melanesian islands west of Fiji.

He cited innovations shared by the Fijian, Polynesian and Rotuman languages but not, in his opinion, by other languages.