Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/(ma-)tuqah
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