ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*adu compete, confront in a contest

PWMP adu compete, confront in a contest ⇫ ¶

WMP
Maranao	ado	threaten, as a piece in chess
Acehnese	adu	compete
Toba Batak	mar-adu	compete with
Karo Batak	adu	competition, rivalry
Iban	adu	arbitrate, arrange, settle, adjust; complaint, appeal
Malay	adu	pitting; matching one against the other; getting up a contest. Of any trial of strength or skill, or even of smartness and looks
Sundanese	adu	come into contact with one another (as the noses or foreheads of two persons
Javanese	adu	in contact, in confrontation
Balinese	adu	fighting, duel, quarrel
Sasak	adu	compete for something, as in cockfights or races

PWMP maŋ-adu compete, confront in a contest ⇫ ¶

WMP
Karo Batak	ŋ-adu-ken	complain about someone
	ŋ-adu	complain
Sundanese	ŋ-adu	fight, confront, argue
Old Javanese	aŋ-adu	put face-to-face, bring into contact, make clash, have fight, pit against; to vie in, measure
	aŋ-adu-adu	incite
Balinese	ŋ-adu	to fight
Sasak	ŋ-adu	compete with others

Reconstructions

PWMP	adu	compete, confront in a contest
PWMP	maŋ-adu	compete, confront in a contest

Note

Also Tagalog áro ‘prodding test of strength of textiles’, Javanese aḍu ‘sue, bring legal action against’, Mongondow adu ‘accusation, charge’ (Malay loan). Many of the forms cited here probably are Malay loans, and the antiquity of the etymon is thus very much in doubt.