ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*buliR (entire) stalk of bananas; ear of grain

PMP buliR (entire) stalk of bananas; ear of grain ⇫ ¶

WMP
Isneg	búlig	stem of bananas
Ifugaw	búlig	bunch of bananas; i.e. the whole bunch (as when it still hangs on the banana tree)
	him-búlig	one bunch of bananas
Kankanaey	sinka-búlig	one bunch of bananas; the whole bunch
	búlig	bunch of bananas
Yogad	bulig	bunch of bananas
Arta	búlig	bunch (bananas)
Casiguran Dumagat	bulég	stalk of bananas
Ilokano	búlig	stem of bananas; cluster, bunch (of coconuts, etc.)
Tagalog	buwíg	bunch of fruits (as bananas); cluster of fruits (as lansones)
Hanunóo	bulíg	large bunch, a complete infructescence, as of bananas or palms; the classifier for enumerating such units
Aklanon	búlig	bunch of bananas or similar fruits
Hiligaynon	búlig	bunch of banana fruits intact on the trunk
Cebuano	him-búlig	producing lots and lots of bunches
	búlig	bunch of large fruit, coconuts or bananas; form a bunch of fruit
Binukid	bulíg	stalk of bananas
Maranao	olig	bunch, as of bananas
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	bulig	small domesticated or wild variety of banana
Mansaka	borig	hand of bananas
Malay	bulir	cluster; ear of grain
Mongondow	tagin bulig-an	kind of banana
Bare'e	mo-wuli	hang down in clusters
	wuli	ear of grain; cluster, bunch (of areca nuts, bananas, lansat)
Tae'	tallu buli-nna	riceplant (lit. 'the three-eared, that which has three ears')
	buli	ear of grains, bunch of bananas
Old Javanese	wulih	stem
Javanese	wuli	ear (of rice, corn)
Balinese	bulih	rice-seedling; rice-stalk; catkin
Bikol	búlig	the fruiting stem of the banana, filled with bunches of bananas
CMP
Soboyo	fiaʔ mfuli	a bunch, stalk of bananas
	fuli	bunch, cluster
Alune	buli	bear fruit
	buli-ni	a cluster of fruit
	uri buli-ni	a stalk of bananas
Paulohi	huri-ni	its cluster of fruit (used of stalks of bananas)
Kamarian	huri	bunch or cluster of fruit
Asilulu	kula huli-n	stalk of bananas
Erai	huli-n	ear (of rice, etc.)
Bimanese	wuri	ear of grain
Sika	wulir	the stalk of rice and millet
	wuli	an entire stem of bananas
Tetun	dai fuli-n	weights of the net
	fuli-n	head of grain, rice
	batar fuli-n	a cob of maize
Hawu	wuri are	ear of paddy
	wuri huhu	nipple of the breast
	wuri terae	ear of millet
	wuri	ear of grain

POC puliR bunch, cluster (of fruit) ⇫ ¶

OC
Tawala	puli	bundle, bunch

PMP sa buliR one stem, one stalk ⇫ ¶

WMP
Mongondow	tom-bulig	cluster of fruit
Bare'e	pae sa-m-buli	an ear of rice, rice head
Old Javanese	sa-wulih	one stem

Reconstructions

PMP	buliR	(entire) stalk of bananas;…
POC	puliR	bunch, cluster (of fruit)
PMP	sa buliR	one stem, one stalk

Note

Also Tiruray bulig ‘a generic term for wild banana, Musa sp.’, Balinese buli ‘grain in the ear’, Buginese wule ‘stem (of rice)’; ule ‘rice head’, Makassarese bulereʔ ‘rice ear, rice head’, Sika wuliŋ ‘an entire stem of bananas’. Agreements in various Philippine languages and Sika indicate that *buliR probably referred to an entire stalk of bananas while still on the plant in contradistinction to a hand of bananas that has been broken from the stalk. Cross-cutting agreements in various languages of western and eastern Indonesia suggest that *buliR also designated an ear of grain, particularly the rice-head. Although these glosses to a large extent are in complementary distribution, the reconstruction of homophones in such a case clearly would be unsatisfactory. It thus appears most likely that PMP *buliR meant both ‘(entire) stalk of bananas’ and ‘ear/head of grain’.