Reconstruction:Proto-Polynesian/uaua
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Proto-Polynesian
Etymology
Reduplication of *ua, from Proto-Oceanic *uʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat, Proto-Austronesian *huʀaC.
Noun
*uaua
Descendants
- Tongic
- Tongan: uoua
- Samoic–Outlier
- Eastern Polynesian
References
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *huRaC.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “UA.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559