Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)

Roger Mills scripsit:

> There's been a similar change in the Austonesian area-- what Dempwolff
> (1934-38) reconstructed as PAN (which does NOT drool) is now called
> Malayo-Polynesian;
Y'know, "PAN" is a weird acronym, as if the "n" were part of the suffix
instead of being epenthetic.

> a form can only be called PAN if it's also attested in
> Taiwan.
I had my hair cut for a few months by a Taiwanese aboriginal, but her English
was limited and I never got up the nerve to grill her about her language(s).

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