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toa

The English word “toa” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
  2. A brave warrior.
  3. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood.

Etymology

Borrowed from Dieri toa (“sign, mark, stick, messenger”), thoa, thuwa.

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