ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*bilin order, request, command; message; something left for another

PWMP bilin order, request, command; message; something left for another ⇫ ¶

WMP
Itbayaten	vilin	request, order, command, message, instruction
	vilin-en	leave something to someone
	ma-milin	leave behind
	na-vilin	left aside; what was left, leftover
Itawis	bílin	message
Bontok	bílin	to command; to order; law; commandment
Ifugaw	bilín	to put, lay something aside, to push something a little farther
Kankanaey	bilín	be separated, set apart, put aside
Casiguran Dumagat	bilín	advise, order instruct, request (something to someone on the occasion of your departing from him, or he departing from you)
Pangasinan	bilín	education, advice, counsel; to advise, counsel
Ilokano	bílin	order, commandment, precept, command, injunction, mandate
Tagalog	bílin	errand asked to be done; order; request; counsel, advice
Hanunóo	bílin	order, request, requisition, command; something said to warn or instruct the addressee and to be carried out by the latter
Aklanon	bílin	leave behind; order, request
Hiligaynon	bilín	balance account, remainder, left over
	bílin	request, last words
Cebuano	bílin	leave something behind; for a wife to be left pregnant when her husband dies; leave word
	ka-bílin	inheritance
	ha-bílin	be left behind (as a passenger when a boat leaves); be the amount remaining; for a girl to fail to get married
	pa-bílin	stay behind, remain in the same way
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	bilin	hand down to succeeding generations
Sasak	bilin	leave, desert, forsake; specifically, be left in the lurch by one's fiancee

PPh hi-bilín order, request ⇫ ¶

WMP
Ilokano	i-bílin	to order, to command; give an order to, give an order for
Aklanon	hi-bílin	leave behind; order, request
	i-bílin	leave behind; order, request
Cebuano	hi-bílin	be left behind (as a passenger when a boat leaves); be the amount remaining; for a girl to fail to get married

PPh ma-bílin separated, left behind ⇫ ¶

WMP
Itbayaten	ma-vilin	be left over, stay, remain, be left, stay at home, be left behind
Kankanaey	ma-blín	be separated, set apart, put aside

PPh maR-bilín to order; leave a message ⇫ ¶

WMP
Isneg	mag-bílin	to order, make a contract
Itawis	mab-bílin	leave or deliver a message
Hiligaynon	mag-bílin	to enjoin, to leave behind

Reconstructions

PWMP	bilin	order, request, command;…
PPh	hi-bilín	order, request
PPh	ma-bílin	separated, left behind
PPh	maR-bilín	to order; leave a message

Note

Also Kenyah bilin ‘summon, invite’. Tsuchida (1976:141) proposes a connection between this word (represented only by Hiligaynon and Cebuano) and various Formosan forms, including Saaroa pali-vaa-viliLi ‘follow’, Tsou ua-frihi ‘the last’, Rukai (Maga) usbírli ‘follow’, Rukai (Mantauran) ʔau-viliLi ‘follow’, Paiwan vililʸ ‘behind (when moving)’, ki-dja-vililʸ ‘follow after’, and Saisiyat may-biil ‘later, after’. If he is correct a PAn etymon *biliN (equivalent to his "Proto-Hesperonesian-Formosan" *biliN) is justified, but it is not at all clear to me that the Formosan and Philippine forms show anything more than chance similarity. The fundamental sense of PPh *bílin clearly is that of a verbal bequest which is passed down through time (hence to those who come "after"), whereas the Formosan forms, which appear to form a cognate set by themselves, refer to a laggard (Ferrell 1982:337 also lists affixed forms such as viliL-aŋa a qiLas ‘end of the month’, but such usages appear to be derivative). It is only the overlap in the English gloss ‘behind’ which ties these sets together, yet the sense of ‘behind’ in the two sets is quite different. It is possible, though by no means obvious that Sasak bilin provides a semantic bridge between the Formosan and Philippine sets.