ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*qabin hold or carry under the arm

PMP qabin hold or carry under the arm ⇫ ¶

WMP
Maranao	abin	carry on or near the stomach
Palauan	ʔ-il-abl	carried under the arm
	ʔa-ʔabl	(mother and child) walk together, with child carried under mother's arm
Alas	abin	hug a child who is cold
Karo Batak	abin	hold in the lap, hold or carry against the bosom
	abin-abin-en	the lap
Banggai	abin	carry in the arms
Uma	-awi	put in the lap
Rejang	ambin	shawl for carrying infant on back or at waist
Muna	ghawi	lap, hold in the lap
Old Javanese	awin	bear, bring along (weapon, insignia, betel set), of someone escorting a person of rank
Balinese	abin	hold in the lap
OC
Bugotu	avin-i	carry in the arms
Nggela	avi	carry a child under the arm
Sa'a	äpi	hold under the arm, hold close to the body

PWMP meŋ-qabin hold or carry under the arm ⇫ ¶

WMP
Palauan	məŋ-abl	carry under the arm
Karo Batak	ŋ-abin	hold or carry in the lap
Banggai	moŋ-obin-i	take in the arms
	maŋ-abin	carry in the arms

Reconstructions

PMP	qabin	hold or carry under the arm
PWMP	meŋ-qabin	hold or carry under the arm

Note

Also Maranao aben ‘hold in the lap’, Kenyah (Long Wat) bin ‘carry on the back’, Melanau (Mukah) bin ‘carry on the back’. Toba Batak abiŋ ‘carry in the lap; carry off a woman by force’, abiŋ-an ‘lap, place where one carries a child’, Nggela avih-i ‘carry a child under the arm’. Although the gloss given to this form is justified by very similar meanings in both WMP and OC languages, an essential part of the meaning in PWMP appears to have been a condition that the contact between thing carried and person carrying was on or near the lower abdomen.