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Bulu (New Guinea)
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”).
Noun
tavine
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Meramera
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”).
Noun
tavine
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Mota
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”).
Noun
tavine
- woman
Further reading
- François, Alexandre, Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu (2013)
Muduapa
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”).
Noun
tavine
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
- René van den Berg, Peter Bachet, Vitu grammar sketch (2006)
Uneapa
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tavine
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)