Siraya

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

Noun

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tayw

  1. man

Further reading

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  • Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R, Gray, R.D. (2008) “Word: person/human being”, in The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics[1], Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4, pages 271-283