ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*qaqay foot, leg

PAN qaqay foot, leg ⇫ ¶

Form.
Saisiyat	ʔæʔæy	leg and foot (human)
Seediq (Truku)	qaqai	foot (especially of humans)
Seediq	qaqai	foot (especially of humans)
WMP
Itbayaten	ayi	foot, leg, paw
Sambal (Bolinaw)	aːyi	foot, leg
Kalamian Tagbanwa	kakay	foot
Moken	kakay	leg, foot
Palawan Batak	ʔaʔay	foot, leg
Maguindanao	ai	foot, leg
Bintulu	ai	foot
Nias	ahe	foot, fruit stalk (of palms)
Banggai	ai	foot, leg
Wolio	ae	leg, foot, paw, lower course (of a river), river-mouth
Enggano	e-ae	foot
Muna	ghaghe	leg, foot, mouth (of a river)
Bonerate	ae	foot, leg
Proto-Minahasan	aʔe	foot, leg
CMP
Wahai	ai	foot
Batu Merah	ai-va	foot
Masiwang	yai-n	leg, foot
Kamarian	ai	leg, foot
Hitu	ai	leg, foot
Laha	ei-	foot, leg
Elat	ai-n	leg, foot
Ujir	ai	leg, foot
Kisar	ei	leg, foot
Galoli	ei-r	foot, leg
Tetun	ai-n	leg, foot
Morella	ai-ka	foot
SHWNG
Pom	ai	foot
Marau₁	ae	foot, leg
Ansus	ae	foot
Papuma	ae	foot
Serui-Laut	ae	foot
Wandamen	ae	foot
Waropen	e	foot
Windesi	ae	foot

POC qaqe leg, foot ⇫ ¶

OC
Yapese	qaay	his leg/foot
Seimat	ae	leg, foot
Kaniet	ae-	leg, foot
Marau₂	aʔe-	foot, leg
Lihir	kake-	leg
Tanga	keke	leg, foot
Lusi	ahe	leg, foot
Kove	ahe	foot, leg
Gitua	age	leg, foot
Numbami	ae	leg, foot
Gabadi	ae	leg
Dobuan	ʔae-na	leg, foot
Tubetube	kae-kae	leg, foot
Arop	ke-	foot, leg

Reconstructions

PAN	qaqay	foot, leg
POC	qaqe	leg, foot

Note

Also Atayal (Squliq) kakay ‘foot, leg, hind leg’, Palawan Batak aʔáʔi ‘leg’ (Warren 1959), Maranao aʔi ‘foot, leg’, Malay kaki ‘foot; leg; base’, Vaikenu haɛ-f ‘foot’, Biga kae ‘leg, foot’, Windesi ai ‘foot’, Manam ai ‘foot’, Gitua age ‘leg, foot’, Tolai kāki(-na) ‘leg, bone’, Cheke Holo gahe ‘foot, leg’, Bugotu nae-ña ‘foot, leg’, Lau ʔae ‘foot, leg’.

Many words which may reflect *qaqay are ambiguous for *qaqay or *waqay. The loss of *q and contraction of the resulting sequence of like vowels in this form led to a canonically atypical monosyllabic content word /ay/ in some languages. In response to canonical pressure this sequence was resyllabified as /ai/, or even /ayi/. Where the final diphthong had been monophthongized to -/e/ prior to loss of *q such pressures were inapplicable.

It is noteworthy that although a single term appears to have been used for both ‘foot’ and ‘leg’ in PAn, PMP and PWMP, such parts of the leg as the shin (*lulud), calf (*bitiqis) and thigh (*paqa) were terminologically distinguished by at least PWMP times, and reflexes of the latter two have often replaced reflexes of *qaqay in the meaning ‘foot, leg’.