Saya mau tau a- dari Imbuhan fosil dalam bahasa Austronesia

sa-, sa- + ali(N)-, saN-

Menurut Blust (2001, 2009), morfem fosil *kali ~ *qali digunakan dalam berbagai bahasa Austronesia untuk menunjuk objek yang mengandung "hubungan dengan alam gaib."

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Li, Paul Jen-kuei and Shigeru Tsuchida. 2009. "Yet more Proto Austronesian infixes." Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, 345–362. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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