Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/Sabaʀat
Proto-Austronesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
*Sabaʀat
Usage notes edit
In Formosa, this term refers to the western wind or eastern wind and monsoons on Malayo-Polynesian and its Southeast Asian descendants, but on some Polynesian reflexes, where their location is beyond reach of the winds or monsoons, this refers to strong storm winds without reference to cardinal direction. See the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary link below for further reading.
Descendants edit
- East Formosan
- Tsouic
- Southern Tsouic
- Saaroa: varatʉ (“wind”)
- Southern Tsouic
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *habaʀat (“southwest monsoon”)
- Proto-Philippine: *habaʀat
- Greater Barito
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese:
- Javanese: barat
- South Sulawesi
- Celebic
- Wotu–Wolio
- Wolio: bara
- Wotu–Wolio
- Palauan: ngebard
- Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Further reading edit
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *Sabaʀat.