Thao language

Two widely separated examples are Thao (central Taiwan) tana-saya ‘uphill, toward the mountains,’ tana-raus ‘downhill, toward the sea’ and Hawaiian mauka ‘toward the mountains,’ makai ‘toward the sea.’ The monsoon axis is geographically more restricted, but the earlier reconstructed terms *habaRat ‘west monsoon’ and *timuR ‘southeast monsoon’ have been preserved…