Ellicean

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

Ellicean (comparative more Ellicean, superlative most Ellicean)

  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.
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