English Explanatory Dictionary

Ellicean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to a group of languages spoken in Polynesian outliers in Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, and the northern Solomon Islands, as well as Tuvalu.

Word forms

Ellicean more Ellicean most Ellicean

Etymology

From Ellice + -an, named from the Ellice Islands (colonial name of Tuvalu).

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