<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bob replied to you only, not to the list. Your reply to him came back to the list, but didn't include anything about what he had said. Do you think you could share Bob's suggestion with all of us?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:53 PM, John Brownie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john_brownie@sil.org" target="_blank">john_brownie@sil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OK, thanks. That's helpful.<br>
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Another case is matavanga 'open space, clearing'. The best match I can see is actually PWMP, *tawaŋ, but I wonder if that is a plausible connection. I'm looking at reflexes of *ma-, which are very restricted in my data, but this might be one.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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John<br>
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John Brownie<br>
In Australia on furlough from SIL Papua New Guinea<br>
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