Aboriginal vs Paiwan - What's the difference?
aboriginal | paiwan |
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
(plural collective) An aboriginal people native to Taiwan.
(countable) A person of Paiwan descent.
(uncountable) The Formosan language of the Paiwan people.
Of or relating to the Paiwan people.
Of or relating to the Paiwan language.
As adjectives the difference between aboriginal and paiwan
is that aboriginal is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive while Paiwan is of or relating to the Paiwan people.As proper nouns the difference between aboriginal and paiwan
is that aboriginal is any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines while Paiwan is an aboriginal people native to Taiwan.As a noun aboriginal
is an animal or plant native to a region.aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.