ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*Sawak waist, back of the waist

PAN Sawak waist, back of the waist ⇫ ¶

Form.
Kavalan	sawaq	waist, back of the waist
Thao	awak	an area of the body corresponding roughly to the waist; vulnerable areas of the side and back between the rib cage and the pelvic bone

PMP hawak waist, back of the waist ⇫ ¶

WMP
Itawis	áwak	waist
Bontok	ʔáwak	body
Ifugaw	áwak	loins, or waist
Kankanaey	áwak	body
Pangasinan	áwak	waist
Sambal (Tina)	awak	waist
Sambal	awak	waist
Hanunóo	háwak	back of the waist (NOTE: No general term for waist)
Aklanon	háwak	waist
Hiligaynon	háwak	waistline
Cebuano	háwak	waist
	hawak-un	tend to suffer from backaches
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	hawak	waist of a person; by extension, waist of a garment; hold someone around the waist
Mansaka	awak	waist
Kadazan Dusun	t-avak	waist, hips, loins
Tingalan (West)	awak	waist
Talaud	avaʔa	body
Acehnese	awaʔ	body; person; crew
Simalungun Batak	awak	waist
Dairi-Pakpak Batak	abak	waist, hips
Simalur	awaʔ	body, trunk, stem
Toba Batak	ak	hips, loins
Karo Batak	awak	loins
Malay	awak	body; trunk of body; self; -- whence it is used as a pronoun (I, we, -- connoting a certain kindly superiority or authority; you -- as a pronoun in familiar use; sometimes in kindly speech)
Mongondow	awak	body; sometimes also 'self'
Gorontalo	wawaʔo	body
Bare'e	awa	body; waist
Uma	aak	waist
Rejang	awoʔ	body, abdomen, trunk
Muna	aa	waist
Sundanese	paŋ-awak	be, exist
	awak	body; reflexive pronoun
Old Javanese	awak	body, embodiment, self, own self, own (special) form of being, nature, kind
	m-āwak	have or assume a body, be an embodiment of
Javanese	awak	body; you ( to someone one speaks Ngoko to, but does not know well)
Balinese	awak	body; life; the self
Sasak	awak	body
Bikol	mani-háwak	take the form of something
Proto-South Sulawesi	awak	waist
Bikol	háwak	body, torso, physique; stalk of plants; shaft of an arrow
CMP
Kayeli	awa-i	waist
Buruese	awa-n	waist (anatomical)
Rembong	awak	waist
Manggarai	awak	hips, waist
Proto-Ambon	awa-	loins, hips
OC
Rotuman	ao	body, torso (of man or animal); person, self

PWMP paR-hawak-an body shape ⇫ ¶

WMP
Gorontalo	pohu-wawaʔo	posture, shape or condition of the body
Bahasa Indonesia	per-awak-an	posture, shape or condition of the body
Sasak	per-awak-an	body shape, body build

PWMP hawak-an waistline ⇫ ¶

WMP
Kapampangan	awák-an	waist
Cebuano	hawák-an	waistline

Reconstructions

PAN	Sawak	waist, back of the waist
PMP	hawak	waist, back of the waist
PWMP	paR-hawak-an	body shape
PWMP	hawak-an	waistline

Note

Also Hanunóo áwak ‘back of waist’, Kelabit awaʔ ‘waist’, Maloh awaʔ ‘waist’, Dairi-Pakpak Batak awak ‘waist, hips’, Rejang awaʔ ‘body, abdomen, trunk’. The precise semantic agreement in the glosses of Kavalan sawaq and Hanunóo háwak ‘back of the waist’, and the somewhat wavering English gloss ‘waist, hips’ in several languages suggest that the referent of *Sawak did not correspond exactly to any semantic category of English. Rather, the available information suggests that PAn *Sawak and PMP *hawak referred to the unprotected space between the rib cage and the pelvic bone which is not covered by the muscles of the abdominal diaphragm, hence a part of the body corresponding roughly to the English concept ‘waist’, but applying only to the sides and back.