epâ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "epa"

Äiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Reefs-Santa Cruz *pna, from earlier *pana, from Proto-Oceanic *p(ʷ)anaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq.

Verb

epâ

1. to shoot with an arrow

References

• Næss, Åshild (2017), “epâ”, in A short dictionary of Äiwoo (Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia; A-PL 35)‎^[1], Canberra, ACT: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, page 39
• Lackey, William James; Boerger, Brenda H. (December 2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎^[2], volume 60, number 2, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →JSTOR, pages 367–411