English
Tiare
Tiare comes from Tahitian Tiare.
- TahitianmodernTiare
- Englishearliest quotation 1919same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- TahitianmodernTiare
- Englishearliest quotation 1919same form
Earliest quotation: 1919, William Somerset Maugham, chapter 49: “Tiare — her father had called her by the…”
Every English word from Tahitian Tiare
Today it means
name A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tahitian Tiare / Tiare