Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/qaCipa

Proto-Austronesian

Etymology

Compare Proto-Tai *hwɯəᴬ (Sagart, 2018).

Noun

*qaCipa

  1. soft-shelled turtle

Descendants

  • Bunun: hasipa
  • Atayal: ksipaʼ
  • Tsou: acipa

Further reading

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaCipa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
  • Laurent Sagart. A model of the origin of Kra-Dai tones. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2019,

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