Reconstructions

Note

Also Casiguran Dumagat alaŋan-in ‘to doubt, to be uncertain, to be vague, to be hesitant, to be undecided’ (< Tagalog). Although reflexes of *alaŋ-án appear to be monomorphemic in all known witnesses, the likelihood that this word contains a suffix is suggested by evidence for *alaŋ-alaŋ in the same meaning. However, this suffix must have been fossilized relatively early for languages like Tagalog to then add a reflex of *-en after it. Hanunóo aláŋ ‘doubt’ stands alone as a morphologically simple disyllable, but must represent the base in PPh.