Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/maCa
Proto-Austronesian
editEtymology
editCompare Proto-Kra-Dai *maTa: (“eye”) and Proto-Austroasiatic *mat (“eye”).
Alternative reconstructions
editPronunciation
editNoun
edit*maCa
- eye (organ)
Descendants
edit- Paiwan: matsa
- Amis: mata
- Bunun: mata
- Kavalan: mata
- Tsou: mcoo
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *mata (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussel, The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary.