The story
- Tuvaluan · borrowed fromTuuvalu
- English todayTuvalu
From Tuvaluan Tuuvalu (literally “eight standing together”) in reference to the eight inhabited islands of Tuvalu, although Tuvalu consists of nine islands. The ninth island, Niulakita, was inhabited in 1949. Compare to Proto-Austronesian *walu (“eight”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.