Etymology

Tuamotus

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Today it means: The largest chain of atolls in the world, situated in French Polynesia and spanning an area of the southern Pacific Ocean the size of Western Europe. Full definition →

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The story

From Tuamotuan, tua (“distant”) + motus (“islands”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.