Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/pajay

This Proto-Austronesian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

• IPA^(key): /paɡʲaj/

*pajay

1. paddy (rice unmilled), rice (plants)

• Formosan:
  • Northern Formosan:
    • Thao: pazay
    • Atayalic:
      • Atayal: pagay
  • Northwest Formosan:
    • Kulon-Pazeh: pazay
    • Saisiyat: pazay
  • Tsouic:
    • Tsou: pai
    • Saaroa: paipai (“sticky rice cake”)
  • Bunun: pað
  • Paiwan: paday
• Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *pajay
  • Proto-Philippine: *pájay
    • Northern Luzon
      • Ilocano: pagay
      • Pangasinan: pagey
    • Central Luzon
      • Kapampangan: pale
    • Greater Central Philippine
      • Central Philippine
        • Bisayan:
          • Western Bisayan
            • Cuyunon: paray
        • Tagalog: palay
          • → Chavacano: palay
          • → English: palay
      • Danao
        • Maguindanao: palay
      • Gorontalo-Mongondow
        • Gorontalo: pale
        • Mongondow: payoy
        • Ponosakan: payoy
  • Barito:
    • Southwest Barito:
      • Ngaju: parei
    • East Barito:
      • Malagasy: fary (“sugar cane”), vary (“paddy”)
  • Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands
    • Karo Batak: page
    • Nias: fakhe
  • Proto-Malayic: *padi (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Javanese: pari
    • Javanese: ꦥꦫꦶ (pari)
  • South Sulawesi:
    • Toraja-Sa'dan: pare
    • Buginese: ase
      • → Makasar: ase
    • Coastal Konjo: pare
  • Celebic
    • Kaili-Pamona
      • Lindu: pae
    • Saluan-Banggai
      • Balantak: pae
  • Chamorro: fa'i
  • Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:
    • Tetum: hare

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pajay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI