What is "polynesian"

Usage examples of "polynesian".

Polynesian group, such as the Andamanese, the jungle tree-men of Chittagong, Tipperah, and the vast forests stretching towards Sambhulpur.

They seemed to be a racial mix, from very Oriental to African, European, Australoid and Polynesian, all the peoples of the earth in just these few.

Melanesian languages belong to the one large language group: the Austronesian language family of which the Polynesian languages all constitute one subgroup.

The area of agreement is that the Polynesian languages are related more closely to some Melanesian languages than to the Micronesian languages, and that all belong to the great Austronesian language group.

After Alcatraz came the Island of Hawaii, with a volcano bobsled ride, an underwater submarine ride and a Polynesian restaurant.

The furnishing was simple but pleasant, canework chairs and settees, folk-weave cushions, thick rugs scattered on a cool terrazzo floor, a few oriental pictures, and some Polynesian wood-carvings on the walls.

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.

British Columbia to study at Ryukyu University and complete her doctoral thesis on Micronesian cultures, searching for clues to the origins and migration patterns of the early Polynesians.

Partly for this reason the burden of evangelizing Melanesia was very heavily shared by Polynesians: pastors from the Cook Islands and Samoa in particular came forward from the training institutes established by the L.

Even if, when their vessel should be completed, the colonists should not resolve to leave Lincoln Island as yet, in order to gain either one of the Polynesian Archipelagoes of the Pacific or the shores of New Zealand, they might at least, sooner or later, proceed to Tabor Island, to leave there the notice relating to Ayrton.

The Polynesians, male and female alike, tended to make comments to each other in tongues like Hawaiian to keep others from knowing what they were saying and tended to go around barefoot dressed only in colorful skirts or skirtlike garments with no tops.

Was he Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, Nepalese, Surinamese, Dutch-Chinese?