Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/kapas
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
Early borrowing from East Austroasiatic, whence Proto-Mon-Khmer *kpaas. Compare Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa) and Old Chinese 布 (OC *pˤa-s) (B-S), both of which are probably Austroasiatic loans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkapas/
Noun
*kapas
Descendants
- Celebic:
- Greater Barito:
- Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan: *kapas
- Bali–Sasak:
- Balinese: ᬓᬧᬲ᭄ (kapas)
- Proto-Malayo-Chamic: *kapas
- Bali–Sasak:
- North Borneo:
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands:
- Toba Batak: hapas
- Proto-Oceanic:
- Old Javanese: kapas
- Proto-Philippine: *kapas ~ *kapəs
- Proto-South Sulawesi:
- Duri: kapaq, kapah
References
- ^ Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “KAFA.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559