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Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/mamaq
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mamaʔ/, /mamaq/
Verb
*mamaq
- to chew without intending to swallow, as betel nut
- to premasticate food to give to an infant
Descendants
- Philippine
- Batanic
- Northern Luzon
- Central Luzon
- Greater Central Philippine
- Kalamian
- Calamian Tagbanwa: mamak
- South Mindanao
- Tboli: amak
- Sangiric
- Sangir: memama
- Barito
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese: mamah
- Javanese: ꦩꦩꦃ (mamah)
- South Sulawesi
- Makasar: mama
- Celebic
- Chamorro: måmå'
- Palauan: mamach
- Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Central Malayo-Polynesian
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
References
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *mamaq.
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