ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*qatuan deity

PMP qatuan deity ⇫ ¶

WMP
Toba Batak	tuan	lord; term used for Europeans and in many cases for chiefs
Karo Batak	tuan	lord; European; in names for various gods
Malay	tuan	master, lord
Ngaju Dayak	tuan	lord; used to address all Europeans and those who have made the hajj
Uma	-tua	Lord
OC
Hawaiian	akua	God, goddess, spirit, ghost, devil, image, idol, corpse; divine, supernatural, godly
Emira	otuana	spirits
Tuvaluan	atua	household deity
Anuta	atua	spirit being
Rennellese	ʔatua	God, spirit, deity; to worship, as a god
Samoan	atua	God; divine, godlike
Niue	atua	god, spirit, ghost (now used exclusively for God; for ghost is used)
Tongan	ʔotua	object of worship, deity, god
Maori	atua	God, demon, supernatural being, ghost; object of superstitious regard; anything malign, disagreeable; strange, extraordinary

Reconstructions

PMP

qatuan

deity

Note

Also Rarotongan atū ‘lord or master: an owner, as of property’; Atu ‘The Lord’; atu-enua ‘the owner or lord of land’. In general Malay tuhan ‘God’ provides a better semantic fit than tuan with the other forms cited here, but the medial h disagrees with Polynesian witnesses such as Tongan and Rennellese.

Concerning this form Wilkinson (1959:1242) has the following comment: ‘Many Malays attach importance to a medial H and distinguish between Tuhan (the divine Lord) and tuan (our sovereign on earth); peŋhulu (our head in divine things) and peŋulu (a chief in secular matters). It may be that Tuhan is an artificial variant of tuan as some say.’