Reconstruction:Proto-Oceanic/kaso
Proto-Oceanic
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kasaw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaso/
Noun
*kaso
- rafter (diagonal bamboo poles to which thatch panels are lashed)
Descendants
- Western Oceanic
- Meso-Melanesian
- Nakanai: aro
- Roviana: gaso-na
- Simbo: qaso
- North New Guinea
- Manam: ʔaro
- Meso-Melanesian
- Central-Eastern Oceanic
References
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *kasaw₁.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “KASO.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559