ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*gawaq work, official activity

PWMP gawaq work, official activity ⇫ ¶

WMP
Pangasinan	gawá	task; to do,work, make
Sambal (Botolan)	gawáɁ	to do, to make, to build
Kapampangan	gawáɁ	to make something for someone
Tagalog	gawáɁ	work; occupation; act, an action; product, a result of work
Toba Batak	gao	to work (in certain expressions, as _horbo gao na um-boto mar-gao_ ‘a well-trained carabao that can work’)
Iban	gawaɁ	work, business; be busy; anything important or serious that has to be done, sacred rite, essential and solemn part of a festival

Reconstructions

PWMP

gawaq

work, official activity

Note

This is a problematic comparison first proposed by Dempwolff (1938) as gawa ‘to work’, which he distinguished from gaway ‘magical activity’. The comparison given here supports the first of these reconstructions as gawaq rather than gawa, except that Iban shows final glottal stop for expected -h. The second appears here as PWMP gaway ‘religious feast, festivity’. Complicating the picture are western Indonesian forms such as Sundanese gawe ‘work, business’, pa-gawe ‘worker’, Old Javanese gaway ~ gawe ‘work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose’, Balinese gawe ‘to do, make, work’, and Sasak gawe ‘work, performance’ which suggest that gaway may be an affixed form of *gawaq.