Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/busuʀ
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Austronesian *busuʀ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
*busuʀ
- bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)
Descendants edit
- Philippine
- Northern Luzon
- Greater Central Philippine
- South Mindanao
- Tiruray: bohor
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Toba Batak: busur
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese: wusu
- South Sulawesi
- Tae': buso'
- Celebic
- Muna–Buton
- Muna: mbosu
- Muna–Buton
- Central Malayo-Polynesian
- Sumba–Flores
- Flores–Lembata
- Timoric
- Selaru: hus
- Kei–Tanimbar
- Central Maluku
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
References edit
- Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *busuR.