JamesTor2egosa

Gayuma

@JamesTor2egosa Besides Cebuano gugma, are there other words from the Austronesian family that can add support to your claim *gəʀ(u)ma? You initially claimed it to be Proto-Malayo-Polynesian as well. Do you have sources for this? Ysrael214 (talk) 20:27, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm sorry I dont really have any sources to tell you frankly, but the consistency of sound shifts between "gayuma" and "gugma" have lead me to think that there was such a prehistoric word. See, I am no professional linguist but I have been a huge nerd on historical linguistics for years and am quite knowledgeable on Philippine sound shifts. With that, I do not mean of course to coerce you to accept my "findings" and I do believe that more research has to be done to prove or disprove this. Also, I have to admit that I unintentially claimed the unattested word to be Proto-Malayo-Polynesian since I just copy pasted the template from other entries. Cheers! JamesTor2egosa (talk) 16:06, 22 January 2024 (UTC)