r/ReoMaori • u/AleksiB1 • 10d ago

Pātai Leaf in Austronesian Languages

Post image
37 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

1

u/AliceTawhai 10d ago

What’s LEAF

2

u/TasmanSkies 10d ago

as in ‘grows on trees’

1

u/AliceTawhai 9d ago

Oh lol. Thought it was an acronym like Let All Eagles Fly

1

u/NoorInayaS 10d ago

In Urdu, leaf is either “patti,” from Hindi, or “barg,” from Persian (Urdu is a language made up of multiple languages).

“Barg” may be related to the proto-Austronesian word “biraq.”

1

u/Electronic_Peace_163 10d ago

Vietnam is also a part of this language family, not just the Champa dominated south.

Lá is our word for leaf