nyigase

Äiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *na qasu (“smoke”) + *api (“fire”) (via *api > *yapi > *ye > se).

Noun

nyigase

1. smoke

References

• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.