Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/(ma-)tuqah
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)tuqaS.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
*(ma-)tuqah
- old (of a living being: having lived for relatively many years)
Descendants[edit]
- Western Indonesian
- Hawaiian: makua
- Maori: matua
- Niuean: motua
- Rapa Nui: matu'a
- Rarotongan: matua
- Samoan: matuā
- South Marquesan: motua
- Tahitian: metua
- Tongan: motuʻa
- Wallisian: matua
References[edit]
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *tuqaS