User talk:Alexlin01/NH cognates

Potential lexical influence from AN languages

These two reconstruction might be interesting for you:

• PMP *saʀman "outrigger"
• PAN *təbək "pierce"

In the first case, local SHWNG languages could be the potential donor, but for the latter, the vocalism doesn't match well (e.g. Buli tepa). There is a possibility that the early AN donor language that contributed to the PNH vocabulary was quite unlike the modern AN languages in the area. Which makes me think again about ota... –Austronesier (talk) 20:26, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

These actually both look promising! The first is almost a perfect match. My hunch (and it's just a hunch) is that most early AN loans into NH are from Oceanic or something very close to Oceanic, and that the SHWNG languages have been more recipients than donors (except for late borrowings into West Makian). I've also noticed a possible correspondence between PAN *ə and PNH *o (c.f. PNH *'to.ḋom and PAN Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tazəm, especially since I think *ḋ must have been a palatal originally, and *'p₁o.(d/l)i (to buy)). Send me anything else you find! Alexlin01 (talk) 20:52, 30 May 2022 (UTC)