filifili

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Samoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Tongan fili and Maori whiri), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian vili (to pick, to gather)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.[1] Doublet of fili.

Verb

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filifili

  1. to pick; to choose
  2. to judge; to decide

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fili.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online