Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/aCas

This Proto-Austronesian 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.

Proto-Austronesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʈas/ (Shibata, 2025)[1]

Adjective

*aCas

  1. high; above

Descendants

  • Puyuma: a-Tas
  • Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *atas (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Shibata, Kye. 2025. A reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian coronal consonants: Phonetic evidence from Formosan languages. Dissertation submitted to the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, January 2025.
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aCas”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI