austronèsic

Borrowed from German austronesisch, a 20th-century coinage compounded of Latin austro- (“southern”) + Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əws.tɾuˈnɛ.zik]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əws.tɾoˈnɛ.zik]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aws.tɾoˈnɛ.zik]

austronèsic (feminine austronèsica, masculine plural austronèsics, feminine plural austronèsiques)

1. Austronesian

• Austronèsia (via back-formation)

• “austronèsic”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007