nyibä

Aiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *na mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

nyibä

1. (anatomy) eye

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.