Where does “yau” come from?

yau (Tok Pisin) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian i-kahu, from Proto-Austronesian i-kaSu.

yau (Tok Pisin): ear

Definitions

  1. ear

Ancestry of “yau”, step by step

yau traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian i-kahu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesiani-kahu—
2Proto-Austronesiani-kaSu—

via Proto-Mixtec *yawiʔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Mixtec*yawiʔagave

Words derived from “yau”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian i-kaSu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian i-kahu →