Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/bulaN

This Proto-Austronesian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Austronesian

Etymology

Compare Proto-Tai *ɓlɯənᴬ (“moon; month”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulalʲ/

Noun

*bulaN

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month
3. menstruation

Descendants

• Formosan
  • Bunun: buan
  • Tsou: feohʉ
  • Puyuma: vuran
  • Northern Formosan
    • Thao: furaz
  • East Formosan
    • Kavalanic
      • Kavalan: buran
    • Amis: folad ("moon, menstruation cycle")
• Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *bulan (“month, moon”)
  • Western Malayo-Polynesian
    • Philippine
      • Northern Philippine
        • Northern Luzon
          • Bontok: bulan
          • Ifugaw: bulan
          • Ilocano: bulan
          • Pangasinic
            • Pangasinan: bolan
        • Central Luzon
          • Kapampangan: bulan
      • Central Philippine
        • Visayan
          • Cebuano: bulan
          • Hiligaynon: bulan
        • Tagalog: buan
      • Mindanao
        • Danao
          • Maranao: olan (“month, moon, pregnancy duration”); olana (“moonlight, night”)
        • South Mindanao
          • Tiruray: bulon (“moon”)
    • North Bornean
      • North Sarawakan
        • Kelabit: bulan
      • East Barito
        • Malagasy: volana
    • Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
      • Proto-Malayic: *bulan
        • Brunei Malay: bulan
        • Iban: bulan
        • Malay: bulan
          • Indonesian: bulan
        • Urak Lawoi': บูลัด (bulat)
      • Proto-Chamic: *bulaːn
        • Acehnese: buleuën
        • Tsat: phian¹¹
      • Javanese: wulan, rembulan
      • Sundanese: bulan
      • Palauan: buil (“month, moon”); bilel (“month of pregnancy”)
      • Chamorro: pulan
      • Central Flores
        • Palu'e: wula
    • Northwest Sumatran
      • Batak
        • Toba Batak: bulan
    • Central-Eastern
      • Tetumic
        • Tetum: fulan
      • Sumba
        • Kambera: wulangu
  • Oceanic
    • Admiralty Islands
      • Western Admiralty Islands
        • Wuvulu: pula
      • Eastern Admiralty Islands
        • Manus
          • Titan: ᵬul
      • Yapese: puul (“moon, month, period”)
    • St Matthias
      • Mussau-Emira: ulana
    • Western Oceanic
      • Papuan Tip
        • Central Papuan Tip
          • Motu: hua
    • Micronesian
      • Chuukic-Pohnpeic
        • Pohnpeic
          • Pohnpeian: maram pwul (“new moon”)
    • Central Pacific
      • Western Fijian-Rotuman
        • Rotuman: hula
      • East Fijian
        • Fijian: vula
      • Polynesian
        • Tongic
          • Niuean: pula (“to shine”)
        • Nuclear Polynesian
          • Ellicean
            • Samoic
              • Samoan: pula (“bright, luminous”)
          • Kapingamarangi: bula (“to glow, shine”)
          • Rennellese: puga (“to shine”)
          • Eastern Polynesian
            • Tahitic
              • Maori: pura (“to twinkle”)

Synonyms

• *qiNas

References

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary — *bulaN