8/29/2001 · The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word tatau, meaning to strike. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, etc.) tatau.In Marquesan, tatu.Before the importation of the Polynesian word, the practice of tattooing had been described in the West as …Ancient and traditional practices. Preserved tattoos on ancient mummified human remains reveal that tattooing has been practiced throughout the world for many centuries. In 2015, scientific reassessment of the age of the two oldest known tattooed mummies identified Ötzi as the oldest example then known. This body, with 61 tattoos, was found embedded in glacial ice in the Alps, and was dated ...
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