Tasmate is the name of several places in
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...
.
Etymology
The term ''Tasmate'' means etymologically "dead sea" (from
Proto-Oceanic
Proto-Oceanic (abbr. ''POc'') is a proto-language that historical linguists since Otto Dempwolff have reconstructed as the hypothetical common ancestor of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Oceanic is a descendant ...
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tasik'' 'sea', *''
mate
Mate may refer to:
Science
* Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in:
** Mate choice, intersexual selection
** Mating
* Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins
Person or title
* Friendship ...
'' 'dead'); it refers to places on the coast where the sea is quieter, and makes landing easier.
In the
Proto-Torres–Banks language
Proto-Torres-Banks (abbr. PTB) is the reconstructed ancestor of the seventeen languages of the Torres and Banks Islands of Vanuatu. Like all indigenous languages of Vanuatu, it belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages.
Des ...
, ancestral to
Mota Mota, MOTA or variations thereof may refer to:
Geography
* Mota (island), Vanuatu
* Mota, Ethiopia, a town
* Mota, Gujarat, India, a town
* Mota, Ljutomer, Slovenia, a village
Music
* ''M.O.T.A.'' (album), a 2005 album by Cultura Profética
* "M ...
and
Mwerlap, it can be reconstructed as *''tasimate''.
Geography
The name may refer to the following entities:
*
Tasmate (Santo) Tasmate is the name of several places in Vanuatu.
Etymology
The term ''Tasmate'' means etymologically "dead sea" (from Proto-Oceanic *'' tasik'' 'sea', *''mate'' 'dead'); it refers to places on the coast where the sea is quieter, and makes landing ...
, a village on the west coast of
Espiritu Santo
Espiritu Santo (, ; ) is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of and a population of around 40,000 according to the 2009 census.
Geography
The island belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region o ...
{{Disambiguation, geo}** Tasmate language, the language spoken in that village
* Tasmate (Mota), a village on the island of Mota (island), Mota
{{Disambiguation, geo}* Tesmet (Merelava) (form taken by the name ''Tasmate'' in the local
Mwerlap language
Mwerlap is an Oceanic language spoken in the south of the Banks Islands in Vanuatu.
Its 1,100 speakers live mostly in Merelava and Merig, but a fair proportion have also settled the east coast of Gaua island.François (2012: 97). Besides, a num ...
), a village on the island of
Merelava
Merelava (or ''Mere Lava'') is an island in the Banks Islands of the Torba Province of northern Vanuatu.
Names
The inhabitants of Merelava call their own island ''Mwerlap'', more accurately ''N̄wërlap'' .
The name ''Merelava'' or ''M̄ere Lava' ...
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