siʼ
Belait
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siʔ/
Noun
siʼ
- water
- river
Further reading
- Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam (1996), page 15: Examples in modern-day Belait are seow "sugarcane", siʼ "water," and sok "head hair".
- ABVD, citing Peter Mastin (siʔ)
- Robert Blust, Low Vowel Fronting in Northern Sarawak, Oceanic Linguistics 39:2 (2000), page 314
- Robert Blust, The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited, Oceanic Linguistics 45:2 (2006)
Chol
Noun
siʼ
- wood
References
- Lauren Clemens and Jessica Coon, Prosodic constituency of verb-initial clauses in Ch’ol (2016), p. 2