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Proto-Austronesian *taqən: an anomaly removed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

H. L. Shorto
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In BSOAS, XXXVIII, 1, 1975, at p. 92 I noted the anomaly in the Achinese and Mainland reflexes of the PAN base reconstructed by Dyen as *[tT]ahan: Ach. thön, töhön ‘to endure’, Cham tha:n ‘to draw back, restrain’, Röglai that ‘to set [trap]’, which imply rather *-q-. Dyen's *-h- rested on the comparison of Malay tahan ‘to restrain, to endure strain, to set [traps]’ with Tagalog tahán ‘cessation’, Samar-Leyte Bisayan táhan ‘to detain’, Bikol táhan ‘to endure more than another’. It required the assumption that Javanese tahan ‘to restrain, endure’, which also prima facie implies *-q-, was a loan ‘perhaps from Malay’.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 128 - 129
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1977

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References

1 The Proto-Malayo-Polynesian laryngeals, Baltimore, 1953, p. 12 and n. 44.Google Scholar

2 Blust, Robert A., ‘Additions to “Proto-Austronesian addenda” … 11’, Working Papers in Linguistics, V, 3, 1973, p. 41, no. 106Google Scholar; Preliminary studies on the lexicography of the Philippine languages (Publications of the Institute of National Language, 1), no. 11, Manila, 1940, p. 5. no. 2; pp. 34–5, no. 131; p. 117, no. 14.Google Scholar

3 op. cit., p. 11 and n. 20.

4 Nothofer, Bernd, The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic,'s-Gravenhage, 1975, 174.Google Scholar

5 cf. for the variation CB taun, tahan ‘to place a bet’.

6 Preliminary studies …, no. 11, p. 117, no. 11.Google Scholar

7 cf. e.g. ‘casuarina’, PAN *(q)ayuquS: Mai. ĕru, Ach. aro-n, Tag. agóqo; CB by metathesis agúhù /agú:hu?/.

8 ‘Proto-Austronesian addenda’, Oceanic Linguistics, IX, 2, 1971, p. 124, no. 126.Google Scholar

9 cf. ibid., 107, 114.