ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*hampir near, close by

PWMP hampir near, close by ⇫ ¶

WMP
Ilokano	y-ampír	place, etc. close to something
	um-ampír	stay, come, etc. close to something
Tagalog	hampil	approach, put near; place beside or against
Maranao	ampir	shoreward, near, go side-by-side
	ampir-aʔ	wharf, landing platform, quay
Iban	ampir	encroach, come foraging; approach threateningly or suspiciously
Malay	hampir-hampir	almost
	hampir	proximity; nearly; close by
Ngaju Dayak	ampir	almost, nearly

Reconstructions

PWMP

hampir

near, close by

Note

Also Iban ampih ‘near, close’, Sundanese ampeuy ‘near by, in the vicinity’, Tae' ampiŋ ‘close by, near by, in rapid succession’, Bimanese ambi ‘ready; almost’. The evidence for PWMP *hampir is problematic. In addition to the Tagalog, Ngaju Dayak and Malay forms cited here, Dempwolff (1934-38) included proposed cognates in Malagasy, Javanese, Sa'a, Fijian, Tongan and Futunan, but these appear to be non-cognate. Moreover, it is possible that the Ilokano, Tagalog and Maranao forms are loanwords from Malay, although the semantic divergence of at least the last of these makes a hypothesis of borrowing unlikely.