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Ellicean

Ellicean adjective: 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.

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.

Forms of Ellicean

comparativemore Ellicean
superlativemost Ellicean

Origin of Ellicean

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

Questions about Ellicean

What does Ellicean mean?
Ellicean means 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.
What part of speech is Ellicean?
Ellicean is an adjective.

Words near Ellicean in the dictionary

  1. Elletts
  2. Ellgas
  3. Elliana
  4. Ellice
  5. Ellice-Archie
  6. Ellicean
  7. Ellices
  8. ellick
  9. ellicks
  10. Ellicott
  11. Ellicott City

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