kin term prefix *pe- in other Vanuatu languages

Waruno Mahdi mahdi at fhi-berlin.mpg.de
Sun Feb 27 12:19:28 UTC 2000


> Not surprisingly, a similar prefix turns up in some closely related Santo
> languages: Vara Kiai (Fortsenal) has both ve- and voi-, as in ve-natu-ku `my

I'm not so uptodate on Oceanic, but that _voi_ does call PAN *BeHi "woman"
to my mind. -- Waruno



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