Reconstruction:Proto-Polynesian/papa
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Proto-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *baban, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan.
Noun
*papa
Descendants
- Tongic
- Samoic–Outlier
- Eastern Polynesian
References
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *papan.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “PAPA.1A”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online