Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/bibiʀ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
editEtymology
editCompare Proto-Mon-Khmer *t1ɓur, *t1ɓər (“lip”) (Proto-Katuic *-ɓɨr (“lips”)).
Noun
edit*bibiʀ
- (lowel) lip
Descendants
edit- Philippine
- Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands
- Nias: bewe
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- South Sulawesi
- Makasar: bibere'
- Celebic
References
edit- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *bibiʀ.