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This Proto-Malayo-Polynesian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔataj/, /qataj/
Noun
*qatay
- liver (organ of the body)
Descendants
- East Barito:
- North Bornean:
- Proto-Philippine:
- Sama-Bajaw:
- Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian: *qatay
- Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian: *qatay
- Proto-Oceanic: *qate
- Central-Eastern Oceanic:
- Fijian: yate, ate
- Proto-Polynesian: *qate
- Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:
- Proto-Eastern Polynesian:
- → Äiwoo: teaate (with prefix te-)
- Proto-Micronesian: *ate
- Nuclear Micronesian:
- Marshallese: aj (“liver, spleen”)
- Kosraean: acs (“liver, his liver”)
- Gilbertese: ato
- Chuukic-Pohnpeic:
- Proto-Chuukic: *yate
- Chuukese: yááyá
- Puluwat: yááyá
- Carolinian: ásel (“his liver”)
- Satawalese: yááyáán (“his liver”)
- Ulithian-Woleaian:
- Echangese:
- Pohnpeic:
- Pohnpeian: eh (“his liver”)
- Mokilese: oaj (“liver, his liver”)
- Tetum: aten
- Proto-Bungku-Tolaki:
- Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan:
- Proto-Malayo-Chamic:
- Sundanese: ᮃᮒᮤ (ati)
- Muna-Buton:
- Old Javanese: hati