Tahitian vai

← Maori wai (cognate)

← Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ (inherited)

← Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ (inherited)

← Proto-Eastern Polynesian *wai (inherited)

← Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wai (inherited)

← Proto-Polynesian *wai (inherited)

← Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ (inherited)

← Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ (inherited)

→ Maori wai (cognate)