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Reconstruction:Proto-Polynesian/rima
Proto-Polynesian
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Cardinal : *rima | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima.[1][2]
Noun
*rima
- hand
Numeral
*rima
- five
Descendants
- Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:
- Proto-Eastern Polynesian:
- Marquesic
- Hawaiian: lima
- South Marquesan: 'ima
- Tahitic
- Maori: rima
- Tahitian: rima
- Rapa Nui: rima
- Marquesic
- Samoic-Outlier
- Ellicean
- Kapingamarangi: lima
- Nukuoro: lima
- Sikaiana: lima
- Tuvaluan: lima
- Futunic
- East Futuna: lima
- Samoic
- Niuatoputapu: lima
- Samoan: lima
- Tokelauan: lima
- Ellicean
- Proto-Eastern Polynesian:
- Tongic:
- Niuean: lima
- Tongan: nima
Reconstruction notes
This term may in fact be *lima;[1][2] identification is unclear due to a discontinuity in Tongan. If it were *rima, Tongan would be expected to have *ima, and if it were *lima, Tongan would be expected also to have *lima. No other Polynesian language fully distinguishes */ɾ/ and */l/. This reconstruction assumes that nima evolved out of *ima, which may have been modified to avoid confusion with a common homophone.
References
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “RIMA (1)”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “RIMA (2)”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online