Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/(ma-)tuqah

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.

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)tuqaS.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /(ma)tuʔah/, /(ma)tuqah/

Adjective

*(ma-)tuqah

old (of a living being: having lived for relatively many years)

Descendants

Proto-Philippine:
- Central Luzon
  - Kapampangan: matua
- Greater Central Philippine
  - Central Philippine
    - Bikol
      - Bikol Central: matua
Western Indonesian
- Greater North Borneo
  - Proto-Malayic:
    - Malayic
      - Malay: tua, tuha
        Brunei Malay: tua, tuha
        
        Indonesian: tua
- Old Javanese: tuha
  - Javanese: ꦠꦸꦮ (tuwa)
Proto-Oceanic: *matuqa
- Central-Eastern Oceanic:
  - Central Pacific:
    - East Central Pacific:
      - East Fijian:
        Fijian: matua
    - Proto-Polynesian: *matuqa
      - Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:
        Proto-Eastern Polynesian:
        Marquesic:
        Hawaiian: makua
        Mangarevan: matua
        South Marquesan: motua
        Rapa Nui: matu'a
        Tahitic:
        Maori: matua
        Rarotongan: matua
        Tahitian: metua
        Western Polynesian:
        Samoic:
        Samoan: matuā
        Tongan: motuʻa
        Wallisian: matua
      - Tongic:
        Niuean: motua

References

Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *tuqaS