Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/limas

This Proto-Malayo-Polynesian 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-Malayo-Polynesian

Alternative forms

• *nimas

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *nimas.

Noun

*limas

1. bailer in a canoe

Verb

*limas

1. to bail out a canoe

Descendants

• Philippine
  • Northern Luzon
    • Ilocano: limás
    • Casiguran Dumagat Agta: limás
  • Greater Central Philippine
    • Central Philippine
      • Tagalog: limás
      • Bikol Central: limás
      • Visayan
        • Cebuano: limás
        • Masbatenyo: limás
        • Waray-Waray: límas
        • Tausug: limas
      • Mansaka: limas
    • Manobo
      • Binukid: limas
    • Danao
      • Maranao: limas
    • Gorontalo–Mongondow
      • ⇒ Mongondow: molimat (“scoop out, bail water from a canoe”)
      • ⇒ Gorontalo: molimato (“bail out a canoe”)
  • Kalamian
    • Agutaynen: limat
  • Sangiric
    • Sangir: limasē (“the water that enters a canoe through a leak in the hull”)
• Barito
  • Sama–Bajaw
    • Yakan: limas
  • East Barito
    • Malagasy: díma (“a small wooden vessel used in baling water out of a canoe”)
• North Bornean
  • North Sarawakan
    • Kenyah
      • ⇒ Bakung: ngelima (“bail out a canoe”)
• Kayanic
  • Rejang Kayan: limah
• Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
  • Simeulue: limas
• Malayo-Sumbawan
  • Malayic
    • Malay: limas
      • > Indonesian: limas (inherited)
    • Minangkabau: limeh
  • Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa
    • Balinese: limas
    • Sasak: limas
  • Sundanese: limas
• Old Javanese: limas
• ⇒ Palauan: olimet (“bailer”)
• Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  • Central Malayo-Polynesian
    • Central Maluku
      • Asilulu: lima
  • Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
    • Halmahera–Cenderawasih
      • Buli (Indonesia): limas
    • Oceanic: *limas, *nimas
      • Admiralty Islands (?)
        • Yapese: niim (“bailer”)
      • Western Oceanic
        • North New Guinea
          • Kairiru: lim
          • Mbula: niimi
        • Meso-Melanesian
          • Nehan: limah
          • Halia: limasa
      • Central–Eastern Oceanic
        • Micronesian
          • Kosraean: inihm
          • Gilbertese: anima
          • Western Micronesian
            • Chuukic
              • Chuukese: num
              • Puluwat: niim
            • Pohnpeic
              • Pohnpeian: liim
              • Mokilese: lim
        • Central Pacific
          • Western Fijian: nima (“be baled out, have water baled out”)
          • Fijian: nima (“to bale out a canoe”)

References

• Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *limas, *nimas.