Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/tunu
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *CuNuh.
Verb
*tunu
- to roast food over fire
Descendants
- Philippine
- Barito
- East Barito
- Malagasy: tono
- East Barito
- North Bornean
- North Sarawakan
- Dayic
- Kelabit: tunuh
- Dayic
- North Sarawakan
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese: tunu
- Javanese: tunu
- South Sulawesi
- Celebic
- Chamorro: tunu
- ⇒ Palauan: delul
- Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Central Malayo-Polynesian
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Halmahera–Cenderawasih
- Proto-Oceanic: *tunu
- Admiralty Islands
- Manus
- Nali: tun-tun
- Titan: tunu-tun
- Western
- Wuvulu-Aua: unu
- Manus
- Western Oceanic
- Meso–Melanesian
- North New Guinea
- Papuan Tip
- Nuclear Papuan Tip
- Bwanabwana: tun
- Tawala: tunu-ya
- Central Papuan Tip
- Motu: tunua
- Nuclear Papuan Tip
- Central-Eastern Oceanic
- Admiralty Islands
References
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *CuNuh.