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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Of or relating to the Pitcairn Islands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
A creole spoken in the Pitcairn Islands, formed from an eighteenth-century dialect of English and the Tahitian language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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History
Etymology tree English Pitcairn Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Pitcairnese From Pitcairn + -ese.
