ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*buNi to hide, conceal

PAN buNi to hide, conceal ⇫ ¶

Form.
Puyuma	m-aR-ki-vu-a-li-vuli	play hide-and-seek
Puyuma (Tamalakaw)	kiR-va-vuli	hide oneself
	m-aR-ki-vu-a-li-vuli	play hide-and-seek
Puyuma	vuli-u	hide it!
Puyuma (Tamalakaw)	vuli-u	hide it!
Puyuma	kiR-va-vuli	hide oneself

PMP buni₁ hide, conceal ⇫ ¶

WMP
Tboli	buni	to keep something secret, hidden
Subanen/Subanun	mi-buni	hidden
	buni	hide
Subanon	buni	hide
	mi-buni	hidden
Tiruray	buney	to hide
Sangir	mekun-buni	hide oneself
	meka-kum-buni	play the game of hide-and-seek
	buni	hide, conceal (something)
Toba Batak	mar-si-buni	do something secretly
	buni	hidden, hiding place
	si-ha-buni-an	secrecy
	baro buni	amoebic dysentery (lit. ‘hidden abscess’)
	pa-buni-buni	to conceal, hide something
	pa-buni-hon	keep hidden
Karo Batak	buni	hidden, preserved, laid away
	me-muni	not be open, keep to the back
	ce-buni	conceal oneself
Malay	buñi	concealment
Tontemboan	mem-buni-an	play hide-and-seek (archaic)
	ma-wuni	to hide, hide oneself
Mongondow	po-buni-an	to hide something
	buni	to hide; do something silently or in secret
Bare'e	me-sam-buni	to hide oneself
	ma-wuni	to hide
	pau-nda-wuni	secret, something that one keeps hidden
Ampana	ma-wuni	hidden
Uma	meŋ-ka-wuni	hide, conceal oneself
	wuni	to hide
Tae'	pem-buni-an	conceal oneself from someone
	si-pem-buni-an	hide from one another
	pa-muni	what is hidden
	buni	to hide
	mem-buni	to take cover, hide oneself
	mam-buni-aŋ	to hide something
Wolio	buni	to hide (oneself); to hide (something)
	buni-aka	to conceal, hide, keep secret
Makassarese	anaʔ buni	illegitimate (of a child)
Sundanese	buni	hidden, not visible; quiet, silent
Old Javanese	a-wuni	have a secret; be secretive
	a-muni	hide, keep secret
	wuni	a secret
Malagasy	mi-vúni	hide oneself, be hidden
Proto-Sangiric	buni	to hide
Malagasy	a-vúni	be hidden
CMP
Leti	ma-wuni	we are hiding
	na-wuni	he is hiding something
Hawu	wuni	to hide
Rotinese	funi	conceal oneself, as behind a tree in order to shoot at game or at an enemy; more particularly, to go hunting at night; to hide (something)
	fu-funi-k	hiding place, in particular of someone who hunts at night

POC puni₂ hide, conceal ⇫ ¶

OC
Mono-Alu	funi	to hide (trans.)
Lau	funi	to hide one's tracks
Motu	huni-a	to cover; to hide (trans.)
Mota	vun	to deceive, hide something
Wayan	vuni	be hidden, concealed; to hide, hide oneself; secret, something concealed
Fijian	vuni	to hide, conceal
	vaka-vuni	secretly, on the sly
	vuni-a	to hide, conceal (trans.)
	vei-vuni	hide-and-seek, a game

PWMP maŋ-buni to hide, conceal ⇫ ¶

WMP
Berawan (Long Terawan)	muñih	to hide something
Sangir	ma-muni	to hide, conceal (something)
Toba Batak	ma-muni-hon	to hide something
Tontemboan	muni	to hide, hide oneself
Mongondow	mo-muni	to hide, conceal oneself
Balaesang	mo-muni	to hide something
Tae'	ma-muni	to hide something
Mandar	mem-buni	to hide, hide oneself
Old Javanese	a-muni	to hide, keep secet

PWMP paŋ-buni that which is hidden or kept secret ⇫ ¶

WMP
Tae'	pamuni	that which is hidden, that which is kept secret
Old Javanese	pamuni	a means of hiding something

PWMP b<in>uni secret; hidden ⇫ ¶

WMP
Sangir	b<in>uni	a secret
Mongondow	b<in>uni	was hidden
Old Javanese	w<in>uni	to hide, keep secret

PWMP buni-an be hidden ⇫ ¶

WMP
Simalur	funen ~ bunen	keep secret, hide, conceal
Mongondow	buni-an	what is hidden; secret
Tae'	buni-an	hidden for, on behalf of; also used of hiding something from someone so that they will not see it
Mandar	buni-aŋ	hide it! conceal it!
Sundanese	buni-buni-an	a silent whore

PMP buni-buni be secretive ⇫ ¶

WMP
Karo Batak	buni-buni	(do) secretly

POC puni-puni be secretive ⇫ ¶

OC
Arosi	huni-huni	to hide, conceal
Mota	vuvun	to deceive, hide something
Fijian	nona vuni-vuni	his private parts
	nona i vuni-vuni	his hiding place
Tolai	bubun	keep secret, keep quiet; vanish, as a ghost or a spirit

Reconstructions

PAN	buNi	to hide, conceal
PMP	buni₁	hide, conceal
POC	puni₂	hide, conceal
PWMP	maŋ-buni	to hide, conceal
PWMP	paŋ-buni	that which is hidden or kept…
PWMP	b<in>uni	secret; hidden
PWMP	buni-an	be hidden
PMP	buni-buni	be secretive
POC	puni-puni	be secretive

Note

Also Malay buni ‘concealment’ (said to be a rare variant of buñi or sembuñi, but I take these latter to be a secondary development by sporadic palatalization, much as in *niuR > ñiur ‘coconut’), Simalur bene-n ‘keep secret, hide’ (< *buni-an), Wolio wuni ‘hidden, secret; to hide, conceal, keep secret’, ka-wuni-wuni ‘secret; something secret, hidden or anonymous; child whose father is unknown’, Hawu pe-huni ‘to hide, conceal’, wuniwune ‘to hide, conceal’. Oceanic forms such as Sa'a mumuni superficially appear to contain a fossiled homorganic nasal substitution, but the first vowel is inconsistent with this hypothesis, and some other explanation presumably is needed. Dempwolff (1938) assigned these to *buni, despite the phonological irregularities, but I prefer to consider this a doublet for now.