The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Parameter person, human individual; the word originally meant 'child' as in Malay ...; it is the widest word for 'human being', and needs to be qualified with other nouns or with adjectives to give it content; alone it may even be used with nouns indicating animals ( 'those goldfish'), and with personal pronouns [38bff61c4d5485b267e3f56016d2f73a]

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