A subgroup of languages of the Austronesian language family, mostly dispersed around the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

plural of Proto-Polynesian

A plant with starchy tubers used like arrowroot, Tacca leontopetaloides

A region of the Pacific Ocean, settled by Polynesians, that is roughly triangular, extending from vertexes approximately at New Zealand, Easter Island, Hawaii. This is sometimes used to define the region of Polynesia.

plural of French Polynesian

plural of Polynesian rat

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayo-Polynesian languages.

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Nuclear Polynesian languages.

A proposed common ancestor to the group of Eastern Polynesian languages.

Any snail of many species of arboreal land snails of the genera Partula and Somoana.