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Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/səŋkar
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Noun
*səŋkar
- transverse beams that support the roof of a house
- thwart or ribs of a boat
Descendants
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Toba Batak: songkar
- Malayic
- Iban: sengkar
- Malay: sengkar
- Indonesian: sengkar
- Oceanic
- Central Pacific
- Western Fijian: soka
- Fijian: soka
- Polynesian
- Tongan: hoka
- Samoan: so'a
- Rarotongan: oka
- Central Pacific
References
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *seŋkar.