Reconstructions

Note

All reflexes in languages of the Admiralty Islands (Seimat, Sori, Penchal and Nauna here) show metathesis of the vowels, pointing to Proto-Admiralty *kodaya. Also Nggela kandora ‘cuscus, phalanger’. Osmond and Pawley (2011:225-226), cite a number of other Oceanic reflexes of this form, and note that /r/ for expected /l/ in Nggela and various Southeast Solomonic languages “is consistent with borrowing from Meso-Melanesian neighbors in the western Solomons.”