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Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/wahiʀ ni mata
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
*wahiʀ (“water”) + *mata (“eye”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wahiʀ ni mata/, /wahir ni mata/
Noun
*wahiʀ ni mata
- tear (drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes)
Descendants
- Malayo-Sumbawan: *wair mata
- Malayo-Chamic: *air mata
- Proto-Malayic: *air mata
- Malayan
- Malay: air mata / اءير مات
- Indonesian: air mata
- Malay: air mata / اءير مات
- Malayan
- Proto-Malayic: *air mata
- Malayo-Chamic: *air mata
- South Sulawesi: *wai mata
- Northern South Sulawesi
- Toraja
- Tae': wai mata
- Toraja
- Northern South Sulawesi
- Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian: *waiʀ ni mata
- Central Malayo-Polynesian: *waiʀ ni mata
- Sumba-Flores
- Sumba
- Savu
- Sabu: ei na mada
- Savu
- Sumba
- Sumba-Flores
- Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian: *waiʀ ni mata
- Proto-Oceanic: *waiʀ ni mata
- Central-Eastern Oceanic
- East Fijian
- Fijian: wai ni mata
- East Fijian
- Central-Eastern Oceanic
- Proto-Oceanic: *waiʀ ni mata
- Central Malayo-Polynesian: *waiʀ ni mata
External links
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *wahiʀ ni mata