ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*balaR₁ pale, unnaturally white

PMP balaR₁ pale, unnaturally white ⇫ ¶

WMP
Malay	balar	unnatural or albino whiteness, esp. in a buffalo
CMP
Hawu	wara	white, bleached white

POC balaR₂ pale, albino ⇫ ¶

OC
Lau	bala	white from scars (face, body)
'Āre'āre	para-para	white, pale
Sa'a	pala	light in color (coconuts, people, animals); cataract in eye; pale; faded
	pala-pala	grey, whitish
Arosi	bara	pale in color (as a yellowish coconut); pale from fear or illness, of men
Maori	para	turned yellow, sere, discolored

Reconstructions

PMP	balaR₁	pale, unnaturally white
POC	balaR₂	pale, albino

Note

Manggarai walak ‘extremely white (cotton)’, Ngadha bhara ‘white, whitish, gray’, Sika bala ‘ivory, elephant tusk’, Kambera bara ‘white’ and Leti warsa ‘white (as a horse)’ exhibit phonetic and semantic similarities to the forms cited here, but cannot be reconciled with them under any known correspondence formula. With root *-laR ‘whitened’.