Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/təbuS

This Proto-Austronesian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Austronesian edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /təbus/

Noun edit

*təbuS

sugarcane

Descendants edit

Formosan (geographic)
- Paiwan: tjevus
- Kavalan: tbus
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *təbuh
- Philippine
  - Tagalog: tubó
  - Bikol Central: tubó
  - Cebuano: tubó
- Malayic
  - Malay: tebu
    - Indonesian: tebu
- South Sulawesi
  - Makasar: ta'bu
- Celebic
  - Wolio: towu
- Palauan: deb
- Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  - Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
    - Oceanic
      - Fijian: dovu
- - Proto-Polynesian: *to
    - Hawaiian: kō
    - Tongan: tō
    - Maori: tō

External links edit

Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary.