Pawley 1985

Pawley, Andrew K. 1985. Proto-Oceanic terms for ‘person’: a problem in semantic reconstruction. In Acson, Veneeta Z. and Leed, Richard L. (eds.), For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

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  • POc: panua community together with its land and things on it inhabited area or territory land, not sea (with reference to weather and the day/night cycle) the visible world, land and sky (with reference to weather) the visible world, land and sky
  • POc: tau animate; person (?) person in any form, including ghosts and supernatural person-like beings
  • POc: tamʷataq human being, especially in ordinary living form
  • POc: (k,kʷ)a(i) person belonging to a category