Re: Does every language family contain one with "ma-" "da-" "ta-" words for parents?

On Wed, 10 May 2006 15:01:46 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

>[snip interesting and relevant stuff that I just don't happen]
>[to be replying to]
>FWIW, Proto-Austronesian has *bapa and *ama 'father', *ibu, *indu and *ina
>'mother'. "bapa/k" and "ibu" survive as the official words in
>Ml/Indonesian;
>*ama and *ina in lots of other areas. (And innovations like Bugis /ambo?/
>'father', with /indo?/ 'mother'.) Whether there are also nursery terms, I
>know not.
This makes it sound like Austronesian is a likely counter-example, unless
we redefine "da- or ta- words" to include "na-" words.

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Thanks.

eldin