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*qateluR egg; testicle

PMP qateluR egg; testicle ⇫ ¶

WMP
Moken	keluːn	egg
Manobo (Ata)	atolug	egg
Manobo (Ilianen)	ɨtɨlug	egg
Samal	ɨntɨllo	egg
Murut (Timugon)	taluʔ	egg
Lun Dayeh	terur	egg
Tabun	təror	egg
Talaud	talluka	egg
Bintulu	təlu	egg
Kelabit	terur	egg; testicle
Sangir	me-telluheʔ	lay an egg
	telluheʔ	egg
Lahanan	təlu	egg
Melanau Dalat	tələuh	egg
Melanau (Mukah)	teluh	egg
Melanau Dalat (Kampung Teh)	tələuh	egg
Gaai	klɒw	egg
Malay	telur	egg; also occasionally, 'testicle'. Usually of the eggs of poultry ... also of other eggs (fish roe, turtle eggs); of things, esp. plants, suggesting kinds of eggs
Wahau	tlɒh	egg
Tonsea	etedu	egg
Bukat	taloy	egg
Tondano	atelu	egg
Nias	adulo	egg
Woq Helaq Modang	kəloh	egg
Mei Lan Modang	kəloh	egg
Tialo	ontolugE	egg
Mentawai	atelu	egg
Dusun Witu	teluy	egg
Ba'amang	hanteloh	egg
Bare'e	toyu	egg; testicle
Paku	ateluy	egg
Ma'anyan	ateluy	egg
Tae'	talloʔ	egg
Mandar	talloʔ	egg
Lampung	tahluy	egg
Old Javanese	hantelu	egg
Malagasy	atody	egg
Proto-Sangiric	teluR	egg
Kelai	klaɒh	egg
Proto-Minahasan	ateluh	egg
Long Gelat Modang	təloh	egg
CMP
Soboyo	tolu	egg
	ba-tolu	lay an egg
	manuʔ ntolu	chicken egg
Paulohi	terur	egg
Buruese	telu-n	egg
	ep-teluh	lay an egg
Hitu	teru	egg
Saparua	tero	egg
Larike	tido-na	classifier for eggs
Amblau	reho	egg
Watubela	katlu	egg
Ujir	tuli	egg
Tugun	man telu-n	egg
Talur	manu-telu-n	egg
Kisar	kerun-ne	egg
Selaru	tésu	egg; testicle
	tésu	chicken egg
Rembong	teloʔ	egg; testicle
	teloʔ manuk	chicken egg
Bimanese	dolu-be	testicle
	dolu wudu	testicle
	dolu	egg
Tetun (Dili)	tolu-n	egg
Riung	telo	egg
Galoli	man telu	egg
Komodo	telo	egg; testicle
Sika	telo	egg of chicken, turtle, lizard, bird or fish
Ngadha	telo	calf of the leg; egg
Keo	telo	egg
Kemak	manuk telo	egg
Tetun	tolu-n	egg
	manu tolu-n	hen's egg
Waiyewa	tollu	egg
Lamboya	talu	egg
Kambera	tílu	egg; lay and egg; testicle (because of this meaning the word 'three' is replaced by or in counting persons, and by in counting things)
	tílu manu	chicken egg
Hawu	delu manu	chicken egg
	delu	egg
SHWNG
Taba	tolo	egg
Gimán	toli	egg
As	talɔ	egg
Mayá	ꞌto¹²l	egg
Misool (Coast)	tolo	egg
Biga	tolo	egg

POC qatoluR egg ⇫ ¶

OC
Seimat	atol	egg
Mussau	otolu	egg
Tabar	katuru	egg
Lihir	kator	egg
Mendak	gatli	egg
Kairiru	atol	egg
Tanga	katalu	egg; testicle
Label	kotol a mani	bird egg
	kotol	egg
Lusi	ka-katolu	egg
Lakalai	hatotolu	egg
Uruava	toru	egg
Mekeo (East)	aoi	egg
Lau	saolu	egg
Roro	ahoi	egg
Pokau	akoi	egg
Ulawa	saolu	egg
Motu	gatoi	egg
Magori	atoʔi	egg
Bauro	aoru	egg
Nokuku	otoli-	egg
Piamatsina	otoli	egg
Sakao	atœlœ	egg
Mafea	toli-	egg
Pwele	atolu	egg
Lelepa	n-atol	egg
Efate (South)	atol	egg
Wuvulu	aʔolu	egg
Haununu	auru-	egg
Namakir	ʔatol	egg
Nakanamanga	atolu	egg
Namakir	na-ʔatol	egg

PWMP maŋ-qateluR lay eggs ⇫ ¶

WMP
Bintulu	mə-nəlu	lay an egg
Bare'e	mo-toyu	have testicles; lay and egg
Tae'	men-tallu	lay an egg
Mandar	met-talloʔ	lay and egg
Old Javanese	aŋ-antelu	lay or sit on eggs
Malagasy	man-atòdy	lay eggs

Reconstructions

PMP	qateluR	egg; testicle
POC	qatoluR	egg
PWMP	maŋ-qateluR	lay eggs

Note

Also Iban teluʔ ‘egg, esp. of fowl’, Kapuas tanteluh ‘egg’, Dohoi kotoluh ‘egg’, Lampung tahluy ‘egg’, Sundanese telur ‘testicle’, Balinese taluh ‘egg, spawn’, Tae' tallu ‘egg’, tallu manuk ‘chicken egg’, tallu tallu ‘testicle’, Wolio ontolu ‘egg’, Muna ghunteli ‘egg’, Manggarai telo ‘egg; penis’, Lamaholot teluk ‘egg; lay an egg’, Kedayan tolor ‘egg’, Rotinese tolo ‘egg’, Leti ternu ‘egg’, W.Tarangan (Ngaibor) tulir ‘egg’, Kei man-tilur ‘bird egg, esp. chicken egg’, Elat tulur ‘egg’, Masiwang toli-n ‘egg’, Kowiai/Koiwai toro-n ‘egg’, Buli tāl ‘egg’, Biga tolo ‘egg’, As talo ‘egg’, Magori atoʔi ‘egg’, Tanga katalu ‘egg; testicle’, Tigak katiluk ‘egg’, Wogeo ŋatol ‘egg’, Nggela tolu ‘round object’, tolu ni mbola ‘bubble, as in water, soap bubble; an egg’, tolu ni lau ‘turtle egg’, Ghari tolu-, Talise kolu- ‘egg’, Lau saoolu, saulu ‘egg’, Arosi saolu ‘egg (rare use)’, Mota toliu ‘egg’, tol manu ‘bird's egg’, tol rupe ‘cocoon and chrysalis of moth or butterfly’, tol-man ‘testicle’, Toga tuli-, Wailengi toli, Hukua utuli, Tasmate otoli ‘egg’.

Bare'e toyu bau ‘a swamp plant’, Ngadha telo ‘creeper, climbing plant’, and variant plant names in other languages which make use of the word for ‘egg’ may reflect earlier prototypes, but this is difficult to decide based on the available evidence. Reflexes both of this word and of the doublet PAn *qiCeluR, PMP *qiteluR are widely distributed, although the latter appear to be confined to Taiwan, the Philippines and western Indonesia (Borneo, south Sulawesi). Many reflexes both in western and in eastern Indonesia are ambiguous for the two prototypes, as they regularly lose a prepenultimate initial syllable which began with a vowel or laryngeal.

The appearance of a great variety of irregularities in reflexes of this word in many languages is puzzling, and may be connected with taboo in connection with the meaning ‘testicle’. For the widespread occurrence of an ‘egg/testicle’ equation in natural languages cf. Brown and Witkowski (1981).