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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.
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *banua.
Pronunciation
Noun
*banua
- inhabited land (territory supporting the life of a community)
Descendants
- Proto-Philippine: *banua
- Batanic:
- Central Luzon:
- Greater Central Philippine:
- Central Philippine:
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: banwa
- Northern Catanduanes Bikol: banwa
- Subanen:
- Visayan:
- Manobo:
- Palawan:
- South Mangyan:
- Kalamian:
- Minahasan:
- Northern Luzon:
- Sangiric:
- North Bornean
- Southwest Sabahan
- Dusunic
- Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan: vonuvo
- Paitanic
- Tombonuo: wonuo
- Upper Kinabatangan: wanuo
- Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
- Malayo-Sumbawan
- Old Javanese: wanwa
- South Sulawesi
- Celebic
- Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian: *banua
- Central Malayo-Polynesian:
- Selaru: hnua
- Yamdena: pnue
- Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:
- Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih: *fanua
- Proto-Oceanic: *panua (“village”)
- Western Oceanic:
- Central–Eastern Oceanic:
- Southeast Solomonic:
- Southern Oceanic:
- Proto-Micronesian: *fanua
- Nuclear Micronesian:
- Marshallese: āne
- Kosraean: acn
- Gilbertese: anna (“dry land”)
- Chuukic-Pohnpeic:
- Proto-Chuukic: *fanúa
- Chuukese: fénú
- Puluwat: fanú
- Carolinian: falúw
- Satawalese: falú
- Ulithian-Woleaian:
- Echangese:
- Central Pacific:
- Fijian: vanua
- Proto-Polynesian: *fenua
- Proto-Nuclear Polynesian:
- Proto-Eastern Polynesian:
- Marquesic:
- Rapa Nui: henua
- Tahitic:
- Samoic-Outlier:
- Tongic:
Further reading