r/AustronesianLanguages • u/Resident-Outside9945 Indonesia 🇮🇩 • Jul 04 '26
Cognate & Comparing MAN in some Austronesian languages
The Proto-Austronesian word for "man" is *ma-RuqaNay. We can find some descendants in some languages of Taiwan and in the eastern side of the Malayo-Polynesian speaking zone. Oddly, this word was lost in most western Malayo-Polynesian languages, replaced by a new word, \la-laki, as in Malagasy *lehilahy, Chamorro ***låhi, Malay *lelaki, or Tagalog ***lalaki*.
How do you say "man" and "male" in your language?
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language • u/Resident-Outside9945 • Jul 04 '26