Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/nimas
Proto-Austronesian edit
Noun edit
*nimas
Verb edit
*nimas
- to bail out a canoe
Descendants edit
- Kavalan: nimas (“to clean out water from a boat”)
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *limas, *nimas
- Philippine
- Barito
- North Bornean
- North Sarawakan
- Kenyah
- ⇒ Bakung: ngelima (“bail out a canoe”)
- Kenyah
- North Sarawakan
- Kayanic
- Rejang Kayan: limah
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Simeulue: limas
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese: limas
- ⇒ Palauan: olimet (“bailer”)
- Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
References edit
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *nimas.