Melanesian

English Etymology en :af Melanesia -an + 1 Pronunciation en en Adjective - Of or relating to Melanesia. en 2002 William C. Miller Long Pig While Melanesian cannibals make "long pig," barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder Derived terms en Australo-Melanesian Translations referring to Melanesia Catalan: ca melanesi Finnish: fi melanesialainen French: fr mélanésien Irish: ga Meilinéiseach Italian: it melanesiano Norwegian: Bokmål: nb melanesisk Nynorsk: nn melanesisk Polish: pl melanezyjski Portuguese: pt melanésio Russian: ru меланези́йский melanɛzíjskij Spanish: es melanesio Swedish: sv melanesisk Tagalog: tl Timpuluanin Noun A Melanesian person. en 2008 Andrew David Grainger The Browning of the All Blacks: Pacific Peoples, Rugby, and the Cultural Politics of Identity in New Zealand 326 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VXUjoYMZ6CAC&pg=PA326&dq=%22blackbirding%22+-intitle:%22wagtail%22+-inauthor:%22willy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gT7vTqPwFuSsiAf6m4WSBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22blackbirding%22%20-intitle%3A%22wagtail%22%20-inauthor%3A%22willy%22&f=false Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2). Translations person living in or coming from Melanesia Catalan: ca melanesi, ca melanèsia f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 美拉尼西亞人 měilāníxīyàrén Esperanto: eo melaneziano man or woman, eo melanezianino woman Finnish: fi melanesialainen French: fr Mélanésien m, fr Mélanésienne f German: de Melanesier m, de Melanesierin f Irish: ga Meilinéiseach Italian: it melanesiano m, it melanesiana f Kazakh: kk меланезиялық Polish: pl Melanezyjczyk m, pl Melanezyjka f Russian: ru меланези́ец m melanɛzíjec, ru меланези́йка f melanɛzíjka Tagalog: tl Timpuluanin Related terms en Melanesia