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Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/bulu
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bulu/
Noun
*bulu
- (anatomy) hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)
Descendants
- Barito
- East Barito
- Malagasy: volo
- East Barito
- Chamorro: pulu
- Central Malayo-Polynesian
- Timoric
- Tetum: fulun
- Timoric
- North Bornean
- Melanau–Kajang/Central Sarawak
- Central Melanau: bulou
- Melanau–Kajang/Central Sarawak
- Old Javanese: wulu
- Javanese: ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (wulu)
- Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan: *bulu
- Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa
- Balinese: ᬩᬸᬮᬸ (bulu)
- Proto-Malayo-Chamic: *bulu
- Proto-Malayic: *bulu (see there for further descendants)
- Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa
- Proto-Oceanic: *pulu
- Proto-Central Pacific *vulu
- Proto-Polynesian: *fulu
- Hawaiian: hulu
- Maori: huru
- Samoan: fulu
- Proto-Polynesian: *fulu
- Proto-Central Pacific *vulu
- Proto-Philippine:
- Northern Luzon
- Cagayan Valley
- Isnag: bulbul
- Cagayan Valley
- Greater Central Philippine
- Central Philippine
- Bikol
- Coastal Bikol
- Bikol Central: bulból
- Coastal Bikol
- Bisayan
- Cebuano: bulbol
- Central Bisayan
- Masbatenyo: bulbol
- South Bisayan
- Tausug: bulbul
- Western Bisayan
- Aklanon: buebue
- Bikol
- Manobo
- Matigsalug Manobo: bulbul
- Central Philippine
- Tagalog: bulbol
- Northern Luzon
Further reading
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *bulu