Reconstruction:Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian/api

This Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *api, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapuy, from Proto-Austronesian *Sapuy.

Noun

*api

fire (oxidation reaction)

Descendants

Oceanic: *api
- Central-Eastern Oceanic
  - Micronesian
    - Nuclear Micronesian
      - Chuukic – Pohnpeic
        Pohnpeic
        Pohnpeian: ahi
  - Drehu: eë
  - Polynesian: *afi
    - Nuclear Polynesian
      - Ellicean – Eastern Polynesian
        Tuvalu – Eastern Polynesian
        Eastern Polynesian – Northern Outlier
        Eastern Polynesian
        Marquesic
        Hawaiian: ahi
        Rapa Nui: ahi
        Tahitic
        Maori-Moriori
        Maori: ahi
    - Samoan-Tokelauan
      - Samoan: afi

External links

Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *api

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