Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/niuʀ
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Any PAN term for the coconut? The Taiwanese Aboriginals should be familiar with them.”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*niuʀ
- coconut (fruit of coco palm)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Philippine: *niuʀ
- Basap-Greater Barito
- North Bornean
- Northeast Sabahan
- Ida'an: niug
- Southwest Sabahan
- North Sarawak
- Central Sarawak
- Northeast Sabahan
- Kayanic
- Land Dayak
- Benyadu': inyoh
- Moklenic
- Moken: niun
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Rejang: nioa
- Lampungic
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese: nyū, nyuu
- South Sulawesi
- Celebic
- Central Malayo-Polynesian
- Chamorro: niyok
- Palauan: lius
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Halmahera-Cenderawasih
- Proto-Oceanic: *niuʀ