Reconstruction:Proto-Dravidian/wēmpu
Proto-Dravidian
editEtymology
editNoun
edit*wēmpu[1]
- neem tree
Descendants
edit- Tamil: வேம்பு (vēmpu), வேப்பம் (vēppam)
- Malayalam: വേമ്പ് (vēmpŭ), വേപ്പ് (vēppŭ)
- Telugu: వేప (vēpa)
- Kannada: ಬಂಬು (bambu), ಬೇವು (bēvu) — standard
- → Malay: بمبو
- → Albanian: bambu
- → Arabic: بَامْبُو (bāmbū)
- → Bulgarian: бамбук (bambuk)
- → Catalan: bambú
- → Czech: bambus
- → Dutch: bamboe
- → English: bamboo
- → Esperanto: bambu
- → Finnish: bambu
- → French: bambou
- → German: Bambus
- → Greek: μπαμπού (bampoú)
- → Guugu Yimidhirr: bambu
- → Hebrew: במבוק (bambuq)
- → Hungarian: bambusz
- Indonesian: bambu
- → Italian: bambù
- → Macedonian: бамбус (bambus)
- → Polish: bambus
- → Portuguese: bambu
- → Russian: бамбук (bambuk)
- → Serbo-Croatian: bambus / бамбус
- → Slovene: bambus
- → Spanish: bambú
- → Malay: بمبو
References
edit- ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 531.