ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*baliw₂ return

PAN baliw₂ return ⇫ ¶

Form.
Proto-Rukai	mo-a-baLiw	return home

PMP baliw₂ change, exchange; repeat, return; again ⇫ ¶

WMP
Bontok	nin-báliw	change, as one's habits or appearance
Ilokano	ag-báliw	change, vary, alter, fade, be inconstant, fickle, unstable
Tagalog	balíw	crazy, demented
Hanunóo	b-in-áliw	petrified, fossilized
	báliw	transformation, metamorphosis
Aklanon	balíw	bewitched
Cebuano	báliw	divine punishment, usually for incest, consisting of being struck by lightning and turned into stone; crazy
Maranao	baloy	make into, convert, mutate, enchantment by evil spirit
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	baluy	turn into or be changed into something, as magic; in the terminology of marriage arrangements, to accomplish or to complete a successful negotiation
Berawan (Long Terawan)	baluy	the friends or relatives of a slain man who take revenge on his slayer -- these are the of the slayer
Kelabit	baliw	punitive storm provoked by incest or mockery of animals in which the offender and his co-villagers are struck by lightning and turned to stone
Sangir	baluy	change something
	baliw	evil spirit that sometimes possesses persons
Melanau (Mukah)	buen baliw	punitive storm
Iban	ukoy baliʔ	chameleon
	baliʔ	changing
	manaŋ bali	medicine man who dresses as a woman
Tondano	waloi-en	change! (imperative)
Tonsawang	baluy	to transform, change (shape, etc.)
Lolak	bali	to change
Mongondow	baliw	exchange, replace, renew, transform
Kayan	baluy	altered, changed; to repent
Ngaju Dayak	baloy	repeat; talkative; restore
Bare'e	bali	repetition; different, changed
Wolio	bali	change, lose color, discolor, fade
Old Javanese	wali	come back, return; once more
	bali	come back, return; once more
Malagasy	valu	change, repent
	valuz-i	change, repent
CMP
Buruese	bali	change, form, become; be transformed, as by magic
Kei	wāl	change into
Yamdena	bal	change oneself into
Leti	wali	again, once more
Bimanese	wali	again, once more
Ngadha	bhalé	change, exchange, alter
Hawu	ɓare	change, repent, change one's mind
	ɓari	change, repent, change one's mind

PPh baliw-an change, exchange; repeat, return; again ⇫ ¶

WMP
Bontok	balíw-an	change, as one's habits or appearance
Ilokano	balíw-an	repeat, reiterate, do, etc. again
Maranao	baliw-an	instead of, substitute
Tiruray	baliw-an	a replacement; to replace

Reconstructions

PAN	baliw₂	return
PMP	baliw₂	change, exchange; repeat,…
PPh	baliw-an	change, exchange; repeat,…

Note

Dempwolff (1934-38) reconstructed *baliw ‘change’, *baluy ‘return, come again’. The fuller comparison given here suggests that the supporting evidence cited by Dempwolff belongs to a single cognate set in which the rare diphthong *-iw was occasionally altered by metathesis. Next to its more general meaning it is clear that by PWMP times *baliw referred to a supernatural punitive storm precipitated by incest or mockery of animals (see Blust 1981 for a fuller discussion). Although a belief in such punitive storms is also found among speakers of CMP and OC languages, as the Ngadha of Flores and the Suau of southeast New Guinea, it is unclear whether a reflex of *baliw is used to designate them, and hence whether the meaning of PMP *baliw included this referent.