Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/kapas
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Early borrowing from East Austroasiatic, whence Proto-Mon-Khmer *kpaas. Compare Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa) and Old Chinese 布 (OC *pˤa-s) (B-S), both of which are probably Austroasiatic loans.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*kapas
Descendants
[edit]- Celebic:
- Greater Barito:
- Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan: *kapas
- Bali–Sasak:
- Proto-Malayo-Chamic: *kapas
- North Borneo:
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands:
- Toba Batak: hapas
- Proto-Oceanic:
- Old Javanese: kapas
- Proto-Philippine: *kapas ~ *kapəs
- Proto-South Sulawesi:
References
[edit]- ^ Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “KAFA.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online