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Proto-Polynesian

Definitions

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  • proper noun linguistics, uncountable The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of most Polynesian languages.
  • proper noun anthropology, countable A person who spoke the Proto-Polynesian language.
  • adjective linguistics, anthropology Of or pertaining to the Proto-Polynesian language, or the people who spoke it.

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Examples

  • South American sweet potatoes have been found in pre-European contexts in Polynesia, and the Proto-Polynesian word for sweet potato, kumala, is similar to the indigenous Peruvian cumal.

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  • Papua differ widely from the lithe, active, brown-skinned, mop-headed natives of the eastern half of the southern coast; and Professors Haddon and Seligmann have decided that in eastern New Guinea many Proto-Polynesian, Melanesian and

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • The burly negroid Papuans of the Great River deltas of western Papua differ widely from the lithe, active, brown-skinned, mop-headed natives of the eastern half of the southern coast; and Professors Haddon and Seligmann have decided that in eastern New Guinea many Proto-Polynesian, Melanesian and Malayan immigrants have mingled their blood with that of the more primitive Papuans.

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

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