Reconstruction:Proto-Polynesian/afaa

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Proto-Polynesian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *avaa, from Proto-Oceanic *apaʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habaʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sabaʀat (“south wind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

*afaa[1]

  1. storm
  2. hurricane

Descendants

  • Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:
    • Proto-Eastern Polynesian:
    • Samoic-Outlier:
  • Tongic:

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “AFAA”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
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