< Reconstruction:Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih
Reconstruction:Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih/qabu
Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qabu, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(q)abu(s), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)abu(s), from Proto-Austronesian *qabu.
Noun
*qabu
- ash (solid remains of a fire)
Descendants
- Cenderawasih
- Bedoanas–Erokwanas
- Arguni: avuʔne
- Austronesian Mor: ʔaho
- Yapen-Waropen
- Waropen: awu
- Yapen
- Central-Western
- Windesi Wandamen: wʔabu
- Central-Western
- Bedoanas–Erokwanas
- Halmahera Sea
- South Halmahera
- Kuri-Irarutu
- Irarutu: ɔbə? (smoke)
- East Makian-Gane
- East Makian: yapyap? (through reduplication?)
- Buli Languages
- Buli (Indonesia): áp
- Kuri-Irarutu
- South Halmahera
External links
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *qabu