Etymology

Tabwakea

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Today it means: A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati. Full definition →

Gilbertese tabwakea
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The story

  1. Gilbertese · borrowed fromtabwakea“turtle”
  2. English todayTabwakea

Borrowed from Gilbertese tabwakea (“turtle”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.