Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions—2
Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions—2 Byron W. Bender, Ward H. Goodenough, Frederick H. Jackson, Jeffrey C. Marck, Kenneth L. Rehg, Ho-min Sohn, Stephen Trussel, and Judith W. Wang university of hawai‘i and university of pennsylvania Part 1 (in volume 42 [1]) presents some 980 reconstructions for Proto-Micronesian, Proto–Central Micronesian, and Proto–Western Micronesian. Part 2 in this issue gives reconstructions for two additional subgroups within Proto-Micronesian: Proto- Pohnpeic (PPon) and Proto-Chuukic PCk), and for the larger group that they com- prise, Proto–Pohnpeic-Chuukic (PPC). A few putative loans are also identi²ed, and a finder list for all reconstructions is provided. PROTO–POHNPEIC-CHUUKIC (PPC) PPC *adoola ‘variety of sweet-husked coconut palm’: Chk atoon, ótoon; Pul yótool, yótoolá-(n); Crl atool; Wol atoole; PCk *adoola; Pon adool. Cf. Yap waqthoel, waqtoel, waq- tool ‘a type of tree’. PPC *-ali ‘strand, thin piece (counting classifier)’: Pul yaal ‘necklace, belt’, -el, -ál ‘s. or string (in counting)’; Crl áál, áli-(l) ‘s. of head hair, s. of’, -yál ‘long thin object such as string, hair (in counting)’; Wol yaali, yan-(ni)- ‘hair, thread, thin object, h. of’, -yali, -yeli ‘thin piece, sheet, or leaf (in counting)’; PuA yaani, yani- ‘s. of hair’, -yani ‘thin piece (in counting)’; PCk *yaali, yali-; Pon -„l ‘garland (in counting)’. PPC *aúrú ‘south’: Chk éér, éérú-(n) ‘s., in the s., s. of’, (notowa)-ar ‘southwest’, (éétiwé)- ér ‘southeast’, éwúr ‘spirit world in the s. or southern sky (source of bountiful fruit and ²sh)’; Mrt yéér; Pul éér, éérú-n ‘to be the southwind, be at the s., southwind, s.
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