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aitu

ai·tu

Today it means: A ghost or spirit, often malevolent, in Polynesian mythology. Full definition →

Proto-Polynesian *qaitu

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Proto-Polynesian · derived from*qaitu
English todayaitu

Borrowed from a Polynesian language, from Proto-Polynesian *qaitu.

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