Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/amax

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): /amax/ (Shibata, 2025)[1]

Noun

*amax

  1. father (male parent)
    Synonym: *aba

Derived terms

  • *da-amax (“father”)
  • *maʀ-amax (“to be father and child”)
  • *ta-amax (“father (ref.)”)

Descendants

  • Amis-Sakizaya:
    • Amis: ama, w-ama
    • Sakizaya: w-amaʔ
  • Kanakanabu-Saaroa:
    • Saaroa: amaʔa
  • Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *ama (see there for further descendants)
  • Paiwan: ama
  • Puyuma: ama
  • Proto-Rukai: *ama
  • Siraya: ama
  • Thao: ama
  • Tsou: amó

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) “*amax”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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