The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

*pijax interrogative of quantity: how much?, how many?; adjective of indefinite quantity: some, several, a few

PAN pijax interrogative of quantity: how much?, how many?; adjective of indefinite quantity: some, several, a few

Form.
Saisiyat pizaʔ how many?
Atayal piraʔ several, several times; how many, how many times, how long a time; only
Seediq mn-pia how many times?
m-pia which time?
pia how much? how many?
Thao makim-piza have several of something
piza how much? how many?; several
makit-piza do something several times
la-piza how much? how many?
mu-piza do how many times?
sh<m>i-piza how many?, how long has it been?
mim-piza be several; take several
Bunun pia how much? how many?
Bunun (Isbukun) pia how much? how many?
Bunun piah how much? how many?
Amis pina how many?; several
Paiwan ma-pida how many persons?
pida how much? how many?
Bunun (Takituduh) piah how much? how many?
WMP
Yami pira how many? how much?
Itbayaten pirah how many?
pa-pirah how many (in units or number, not in time)
Ibatan pira how much? how many?
Isneg pixá how many? how much?
Agta (Central Cagayan) pigə how many?
Kalinga (Guinaang) pigá how many?
Kalinga pigá how many?
Ibaloy piga how many? how much?
memin-piga to do something how many times?
Isinay pya how much? how many?
Pangasinan kuma-pigá which in order?
pigá-ra how many? so many
pigá how much?
Chamorro fiʔa how many?
Hanunóo tig-pirá how much? (in asking a price)
pirá how many?; some, several (objects)
Romblomanon pila how many (people)?, how much (substance)?; several (actions, people, situations, things)
Masbatenyo pi-pirá-pirá how much is each? how few? how scarce?
pirá how much? how many?
tag-pirá how much is each?
ma-mirá what is the price?
Tboli hilu how many? how much?
le hilu he an expression meaning ‘It isn’t that much, a little is enough’
Aklanon pilá how much?
piláŋ ka some, a few
Waray-Waray pirá how much? how many?
Hiligaynon pilá how much? how many?
Palawan Batak pira how many?
Mamanwa piráh how many?
Cebuano pilá how much?, how many?; to what extent?
pilá-hay only recently, not so long ago
tag-pilá how much apiece?
Binukid tag-pila to cost how much for (something)?
pila how many?, how much?, to what extent?
Maranao pira how much? how many?
Manobo (Western Bukidnon) pira how many? how much?
ne-piraʔ-an a few days
Kalagan pila how much? how many?
Mansaka píla how much? how many?
Yakan piye how many? (days, etc.), how much? (money, etc.)
Blaan filɨ how many?
Bilaan (Sarangani) filɨ how many?
Kadazan Dusun pio how many?
Ida'an Begak piro how many?
Supan piro how much? how many?
Tausug pila how much? how many?
Sangir pira-m-bua how many pieces?
pira how much? how many?
Simalur ixa-o how many? (things)
da-ixa how many people?
Toba Batak piga how much? how many?
ndaŋ piga not many, few
pa-piga-hon the which? (in quantitative sequence)
Karo Batak labo piga not many
piga how much? how many?
pe-piga-ken the which? (in quantitative sequence)
Maloh insa how much/many?
Tontemboan ma-pira reduce in amount
pira how much?, how many?; not much, a little
Mentawai piga how much? how many?
Ngaju Dayak piræ how many?
Tae' pira how much? how many?
pira-ŋ-boŋiʔ previously, earlier
Mandar pira some, several; how much?, how many?
Makassarese pira-ŋ how much?, how many? (in combination forms)
Lampung pixa how much? how many?
Old Javanese kadi pira how could it be? how is it possible that?
pira ~ piraŋ how much?; a certain number (an indefinite measure) of, some, several
Javanese pira how many?, what amount? (Ngoko
Balinese pira too, very, too much
Sasak pira how much? how many?
Malagasy firi how many?, how often?
firi-na to be divided into how many?
Bikol pirá how many?, how much?; a little more and... (some consequence will follow); except for, excluding
CMP
Soboyo hila how much? how many?
Nuaulu ina how much? how many?
Boano₂ ina how much? how many?
Alune ila how much? how many?
Tifu pila how much? how many?
Buruese pila how many? how much?
Seit ila how much? how many?
Laha ila how much? how many?
Dobel ʔa-yira how many?
Fordata fa-fira how often?
i-fira how much? how many?
Manggarai pisa how much?, how many?; some, several
Tetun (Dili) hira how much? how many?
Komodo pira how many?
Sika pira how much? how many?
Ngadha piza how much? how many?
Tetun foli-n hira what cost?
hira how much? how many?
hira how much? how many?
Kambera pira how much? how many?
Hawu pəri how much? how many?
Wetan wo-ira how many? how much?
SHWNG
Buli fis how much? how many?
fai-fis how many times?
ma-fis how long?
fapi-fis several, a few
Kowiai/Koiwai fis how much? how many?

POC pica how much? how many?

OC
Hawaiian -hia how many? how much?
Woleaian fita-
Puluwat fite how many? (more than ten)
fite-fay how many? (round objects)
fite-ray how many? (animate)
Chuukese fita- how many? (used with suffixed counting classifiers)
fite- how many? (nonspecific or general class of things --- especially if the expected number is more than a few but less than hundreds)
Nukuoro hia how many?
Kapingamarangi hia much, many (question)
Seimat hil how many?
Sursurunga a-is how many?
Manam ira how many? how much?
Label isa how many?
ha-na-isa how often?
Kove pira how much? how many?
Lakalai tau riva how many men?
-riva how many? how much?
Toqabaqita fita-na ordinal form of : how many times?
fita how many? how much?
Lau fita how many?
Tuvaluan fia how many?
toko-fia how many? (of humans)
Kilivila vila how many?
Kwaio fita how many? how much?
'Āre'āre hita how much? how many?
hita roʔua how often?, how many times?
hita ʔāre how many? (of things and persons)
Dobuan ʔe-isa how many?
Motu hida how many?
Hula vira how much? how many?
Bunama hisa some; how many?
ʔe-hisa how many?
Wedau bia-ŋa how many?
Keapara vira how much? how many?
Pileni e-hia how much? how many?
Magori vika how much? how many?
Arosi siha how many?
siha-na how many?, what number so far?
Anuta ku pia how many was it?
e pia how many is it?
e toko pia how many people?
e mata pia how many tens of fish?
Rennellese hia how many? how much?
Mota visa how many? so many
Samoan fia be how many?; be how much?; (obsolete) three (occurs in ceremonial titles)
Futunan fia how much? how many?
Lakona ni-veh how many?
Central Maewo βisa how many?
Lametin mo-vsa how many?
Malmariv mo-visa how many?
Amblong mo-viza how much? how many?
Raga xai-fiha how many?
Araki mo visa how many?
Rano e-vis how many?
Lingarak i-vis how much? how many?
Paamese e-his how many?
e-his how many?; however many; an unknown number; how much? what price? what time?
Axamb ŋa-vis how much? how many?
Bonkovia via how much? how many?
Makatea e-fia how many?
Wayan vica how many?, how much?; be a small number or amount: a few, a bit
Fijian vica interrogative numeral, how many?, and indefinite, so many, as in ‘a certain number of days’ (unspecified)
vica-saŋavulu how many tens?
e vica wale ŋā just a few
Niue fiha how many?; (fig.) a few
Tongan fiha how many? how much?
fiha-ŋofulu how many tens?
Rapanui e-hia how much? how many?
Maori hia ~ whia interrogative numeral: how many?; an indefinite numeral: several (three, more or less)
Filakara fia how many?
Tolai ai-via how many?, how much?, how often?, how many at a time?, how many times?
Peterara visa how much? how many?
Wuvulu fixa how many?
Toak va-his how many?

PPh ika-pija which

WMP
Itbayaten icha-pirah number what? (in a series in time, e.g. first, second time)’
Cebuano ika-pilá which

PWMP ka-pija (gloss uncertain)

WMP
Cebuano ka-pilá how many times?
Binukid ka-pila how many times?
Kadazan Dusun pii-pio few, some
ko-pio which?, what?
Sangir ka-pira-ne the which (in number)?
Ngaju Dayak ka-piræ how many days?
Malagasy ha-firi-ana how many days?

POC ga-pica how much? how many?

OC
Mussau ga-isa how much? how many?
Wogeo ka-visa how much? how many?
Lungga ka-visa how many?
Roviana ka-visa how many?, how much?, what price?
Eddystone/Mandegusu ka via how many?

PAN maka-pija for how many (days)?

Form.
Seediq meke-pia for how many (days)?
Paiwan maka-pida-lʸ how many days?
WMP
Cebuano maka-pilá how many times?

PAN pa-pija how many? (of people)

Form.
Thao pa-piza how many? (of people)
Amis pa-pina how many? (of people)
WMP
Chamorro fa-fiʔa how many? (of living things)
Proto-Bungku-Tolaki po-pia how many? (independent numeral)

This prefixed form clearly parallels the use of Ca- reduplication in the formation of numerals with human referents, although it is unclear whether all forms that appear to be traceable to *pa-pija have the same history (e.g. Fordata fa-fira ‘how often?’, or even the Proto-Bungku-Tolaki form cited above).

PMP paka-pija (gloss uncertain)

WMP
Malagasy faha-firi what number is it?

POC paka-pica how many times?

OC
Arosi haʔa-siha how often?
Rennellese haka-hia how many times?, what day of the lunar month?, how many thatch panels
Mota vaga-visa how many times?
Wayan vaka-vica how many times? how often?
Fijian vaka-vica how many times?

PAN pija pija some; several

Form.
Amis pa-pina-pina several (people)
WMP
Sangir pira-pira some; several
Karo Batak piga-piga some; several
Tontemboan pira-pira some; several
Ngaju Dayak piræ-piræ as much as, as many as
Tae' pira-pira-ka as many as there are
Old Javanese pira-pira ~ piraŋ-piraŋ quite a few, many
Javanese pira-pira no matter how much/many
Sasak pira-pira some; several
CMP
Sika pira-pira so much, as much
Ngadha piza piza some; several
Wetan wo-ira wo-ira some; several

POC pica pica a few, several (?)

OC
Niue fiha-fiha very few, scarce