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26 avril 2020
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Laurent Sagart, « The etymology of PRT *cáni ‘one’ », Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, ID : 10.58079/ukcw
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(view clickable tree) (up one level to Rukai-Tsouic master post) Wolff (2010, sub *táni) noticed the connection between PRT *cáni ‘one’, Itbayaten tanih ‘alone’, Ratahan tani ‘to separate’ and Bare’e tani ‘independent’; add Kavalan tani, utani ‘some, several, a few’. Bril (p.c. April 20, 2020) finds tani ‘only’ in Natauran Amis. The Rukai-Tsouic innovation consists of the semantic shift of *cáni to ‘one’ out of an original meaning something like ‘alone, only’. Reference Wolff, John U. (20...