Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/təbuS

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.

• IPA^(key): /təbus/

*təbuS

1. sugarcane

• Formosan (geographic)
  • Paiwan: tjevus
  • Kavalan: tbus
• Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *təbuh
  • Philippine
    • Central Luzon
      • Kapampangan: atbu
      • Sambalic
        • Sambali: tobo
    • Greater Central Philippine
      • Central Philippine
        • Tagalog: tubó
        • Bikol
          • Bikol Central: tubó
        • Bisayan
          • Central Bisayan
            • Hiligaynon: tubo
            • Masbatenyo: tubo
          • Cebuano: tubó
          • Southern Bisayan
            • Tausug: tubu
        • Danao
          • Maranao: tebo
  • Malayic
    • Malay: tebu
      • Indonesian: tebu
  • Old Javanese: tĕbu
    • > Javanese: ꦠꦼꦧꦸ (tebu) (inherited)
  • South Sulawesi
    • Makasar: ta'bu
  • Celebic
    • Wolio: towu
  • Palauan: deb
  • Chamorro: tupu
  • Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
    • Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
      • Oceanic
        • Fijian: dovu
  • • Proto-Polynesian: *to
      • Hawaiian: kō
      • Tongan: tō
      • Maori: tō

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tebus”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary.