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Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/pəñu
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *pəñu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pəɲu/
Noun
*pəñu
- turtle
- sea turtle
Descendants
- Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian: *pəñu
- Oceanic: *poñu
- Chuukese: wiin
- Fijian: vonu
- Polynesian: *fonu
- Hawaiian: honu
- → English: honu
- Maori: honu
- Niuean: fonu
- Rapa Nui: honu
- Tahitian: honu
- Tongan: fonu
- Tuvaluan: fonu
- Hawaiian: honu
- Oceanic: *poñu
- Western Malayo-Polynesian:
- Borneo-Philippine:
- Greater Barito:
- East Barito:
- Malagasy: fano (dialectal)
- Sama-Bajaw:
- Inabaknon: panno
- Mapun: pannu
- West Coast Bajau: penu
- Yakan: pennu
- East Barito:
- Land Dayak:
- Bau Bidayuh: ponyu
- Biatah Bidayuh: penyu
- Bukar-Sadung Bidayuh: panyu'
- Rara Bakati': panyok
- North Bornean:
- Central Sarawak:
- Central Melanau: penyu'
- Southwest Sabah:
- Central Dusun: pondu
- Central Sarawak:
- Philippine: *pəñu
- Central Subanen: ponu
- Cotabato Manobo: pɨnu
- Greater Barito:
- Moklenic:
- Moken: penyui
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands:
- Nias: fõnu
- Simeulue: eno
- Toba Batak: ponu
- Sunda-Sulawesi:
- Malayo-Sumbawan:
- Bali-Sasak:
- Balinese: penyu
- Sasak: penyu
- Malayo-Chamic:
- Chamic:
- Acehnese: peunyie, pinyie, punyi
- Malayic: *pəñu
- Iban: penyu
- Kendayan: panyo'
- Malay: penyu
- Indonesian: penyu
- Chamic:
- Sundanese: penyu
- Bali-Sasak:
- Old Javanese: penyu
- Javanese: penyu
- South Sulawesi:
- Makasar: pannyu
- Malayo-Sumbawan:
- Borneo-Philippine:
Further reading
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *pəñu
- The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification