The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

*CaluN fallow land; secondary forest

PAN CaluN fallow land; secondary forest

Form.
Amis talod all kinds of grass, weeds (generic term)
Puyuma Taƚu-Taƚun forest, woods
Taƚun grass; waste
Taƚun i ƚaƚiaban edible seaweed (T)
T-in-a-Taƚun-an luxuriant vegetation

PMP talun₁ fallow land; secondary forest

WMP
Isneg tálon the small patch of ground, about a square yard, that is cleared on the first day, when a farmer begins to clear the ground for a new rice field
Bontok tálon forest
Casiguran Dumagat talón jungle, forest
i-talon wild chicken, Gallus gallus; scrutinize an area of forest (to see if it is suitable for making a swidden)
Ilokano ta-talón-en arable, suitable for farming
ag-tálon to work a rice field; farm
tálon rice field
ma-tálon to be suitable for farming, arable
Buhid tálon forest
Hanunóo tálun jungle, forest; an extensive, continuous, forested area
Aklanon táeon field; underdeveloped or overgrown land
Agutaynen talon forest, woods, jungle (some people believe that evil spirits and elves live in places like this)
Palawan Batak tálon woods, forest
Subanen/Subanun talon wild
baboy talon wild boar
Tiruray talun forest
t-en-alun swidden site planted in grain
Kadazan Dusun tahun jungle, wilderness
Simalur talon spot, place, locale
Toba Batak ma-nalun-i to cultivate land
talun fallow land
Karo Batak talun a bit of wilderness where one can secure rights of ownership through cultivation; a place with sugar palms which are tapped for wine
Iban talun turn up soil, dig, till
Singhi Land Dayak torun forest
Tonsea tadun forest
Bidayuh (Bukar-Sadong) tarun a place inland, etc., a wood; dwelling site, place
Mongondow talun mo-nalun clear or work a piece of land, removing the native growth, planting
Kayan (Busang) talun brushwood, bushes, new growth on land that has served as a swidden (but is now fallow)
Kayan talun brushwood, bushes, new growth on land that has served as a swidden (but is now fallow)
Tunjung talun woods
Banggai man-talun to weed
mon-tolun-i to weed, of multiple objects
ta-talun knife for cutting weeds
pan-talun weeding implement
Bare'e talu abandoned piece of ground, cultivated field which has gone to weeds
mon-talu let a field go to weeds, let land go fallow
Makassarese taluŋ past the time of bearing (of fruits); bear no more fruit
Sundanese dukuh talun newly settled areas resulting from the expansion of a village, farm, house with farmland; also a piece of land planted in fruit trees, orchard
talun newly reclaimed swidden land
sawah-talun ricefields and gardens
Old Javanese talun outer gardens (on the edge of the wood, not long opened up)
Madurese talon fallow swidden land
Old Javanese ayam talun wood-fowl
anawuŋ talun live in the woods
Javanese pa-talun-an a mountain plain
talun field which has no irrigation system, and hence is planted only during the wet season
Sasak talun cultivated land
Proto-Minahasan talun forest
OC
Lau alu garden ground, last year's garden
Kwaio alu garden, of second or third crop, or having been opened for harvest
alu siisii an old garden plot returning to secondary growth, beginning to be overgrown
lala-alu early secondary bush from old garden
Nggela talu forest, but not virgin forest, where the land has been cultivated
'Āre'āre ʔāru masiu abandoned, overgrown; last year's garden
Sa'a älu last year's yam garden; bananas and pawpaws and planted there
Arosi aru a dug garden; an overgrown garden, land formerly used for a garden
Samoan talu-talu fresh growth of weeds; growth, development (of feature, phenomenon, etc.); young trees grown up where there had been a plantation
Niue talu-melie productive (soil), fertile
talu-talu land out of cultivation
talu-ē fallow, unproductive
talu-tūvao thick bushland
talu-ŋa plants remaining on an old plantation
Rarotongan taru-taru weeds that have been cut down and laid about on the ground
Maori taru-taru herbage, small vegetation, grass
taru herbage, small vegetation, grass

PPh talun-an clear land for cultivation

WMP
Isneg talón-an clear a patch of ground for cultivation
Mongondow talun-an remove the growth from land, clear land for planting

PPh talun₂ wild fowl, jungle fowl

WMP
Casiguran Dumagat i-talón wild chicken: Gallus gallus
Hanunóo tálun manúk wild jungle fowl, wild chicken: Gallus gallus gallus Linn.
Bikol tálon wild fowl

Probably from *talun₁ ‘fallow land’ by reduction of an earlier construction *manuk talun ‘jungle fowl’, or the like.

PPh ka-talun-an (gloss uncertain)

WMP
Ilokano ka-talón-an tenant farmer
Aklanon ka-taeón-an rural areas
Agutaynen ka-talon-an forest, woods, jungle