Talk:talampak

Source

@Ysrael214 What an interesting etymology. Where was this sourced? Maybe more words with the same etymology? Mar vin kaiser (talk) 15:25, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser No proper source for now that collates everything, sorry. This is only a hypothesis so I put probably. Even those who researched on this aren't sure yet what "-al-" is supposed to mean but they are sure this is an infix. Infixes are very tricky too since it's hard to tell what the root is, or there is a prefix instead, unless you see other words with the same infix for comparison. Talikod is ta- (based on *ta-likud, in ACD) and talampakan is -al- (based on the existence of the word without the infix, even in other PMP languages)

Current sources for the idea:

Based from the -ar- Proto-Austronesian infix (meaning plural):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Austronesian_language#Affixes.

Tagalog -al-, -a'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossilized_affixes_in_Austronesian_languages

Potet, Jean-Paul: Tagalog Monosyllabic Roots, listed an example like talibabad from tibadbad.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3623048

For the words:

This is a good list: Appendix:Tagalog *kali/qali words

There are probably other words beyond this list such as taluktok from tuktok, or halukay from hukay. Ysrael214 (talk) 04:08, 1 September 2022 (UTC)