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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 *bañaw.
Verb
*bañaw
- to wash the body
Descendants
- Proto-Philippine
- Batanic
- Yami-Itbayat
- Itbayat : vanaw ("idea of washing the hands")
- Northern Luzon
- South-Central Cordilleran
- Central Cordilleran
- Kankanaey: bánaw (“to dip, soak, steep, wet, drench”)
- Central Luzon
- Sambalic
- ⇒ Sambali: mibano (“wash the hands”) (from *(ma)-bañaw)
- Greater Central Philippine
- Central Phillipine
- Visayan
- Cebuano: bánaw
- Western Bisayan
- Southern Mindoro
References