< Reconstruction:Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Reconstruction:Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian/ikan
Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hikan, from Proto-Austronesian *Sikan.
Noun
*ikan
- fish (vertebrate animal)
Descendants
- Halmahera-Cenderawasih:
- Gane: ian
- Sawai: in
- East Makian: yan
- Oceanic: *ikan
- Central-Eastern Oceanic:
- Central Oceanic:
- Fijian: ika
- Polynesian: *ika
- Nuclear Polynesian:
- Niuatoputapu: ika
- Eastern Polynesian:
- Hawaiian: i'a
- Maori: ika
- Rapa Nui: ika
- Tahitian: i'a
- Samoan: i'a
- Tongan: ika
- Nuclear Polynesian:
- Micronesian:
- Chuukese: iik
- Central Oceanic:
- Western Oceanic:
- Dobu: iana
- Kove: iha
- Central-Eastern Oceanic: