Where does “hag” come from?

hag (Mwotlap) comes from Proto-Oceanic *sake, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.

hag (Mwotlap): to sit, to be sitting (as opposed to hag hiy ‘to sit down’)

Definitions

  1. to sit, to be sitting (as opposed to hag hiy ‘to sit down’)

Ancestry of “hag”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Oceanic*sake—
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*sakay—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay →Every word from Proto-Oceanic *sake →