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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Sections
- 4.1 Introduction
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 People: gender, age cohorts and marital status
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.5 Settlement patterns and territory in the Proto Oceanic speech community
Words
- 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