m⁶ sia¹

Biao

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “metathesis of Chinese 什麼 / 什么? (seems unlikely)”

Pronoun

m⁶ sia¹

(Shidong, interrogative) what?

References

"Biao (Shidong)" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.