Here's the Wiki etymology https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Palau#Etymology https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Palau#Etymology These are both austronesian langua

Here's the Wiki etymology https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Palau#Etymology https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Palau#Etymology These are both austronesian languages and you can see they inherit from "proto-Malayo-Polynesian" so there is indeed a link, even if this specific word may have evolved from something different.