Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/bañaw
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Austronesian *bañaw.
Verb
edit*bañaw
- to wash the body
Descendants
edit- Proto-Philippine
- Batanic
- Yami-Itbayat
- Itbayat : vanaw ("idea of washing the hands")
- Yami-Itbayat
- Northern Luzon
- South-Central Cordilleran
- Central Cordilleran
- Kankanaey: bánaw (“to dip, soak, steep, wet, drench”)
- Central Cordilleran
- South-Central Cordilleran
- Central Luzon
- Sambalic
- ⇒ Sambali: mibano (“wash the hands”) (from *(ma)-bañaw)
- Sambalic
- Greater Central Philippine
- Batanic
References
edit- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *bañaw