ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*qatimun cucumber: Cucumis sativa L.

PMP qatimun cucumber: Cucumis sativa L. ⇫ ¶

WMP
Itbayaten	simon	watermelon
Itawis	asímun	watermelon
Ilokano	at-atímon	kind of cucurbitaceous vine that grows in marshy places; its small fruits are used in medicine
Jarai	temun	cucumber; Cucumis sp.
Rhade	kmun	cucumber
Aklanon	atímon	canteloupe: Cucumis melo L.
Ida'an Begak	timun	cucumber
Lun Dayeh	timun	cucumber
Lun Dayeh (Long Semado)	timun	cucumber
Berawan (Long Terawan)	timon	cucumber
Sa'ban	hmuən	cucumber
Kelabit	simun	cucumber: Cucumis sativus L.
	simun alaʔ	watermelon
Simalur	antimon	cucumber, gherkin: Cucumis sativa L.
Malay	hentimun	cucumber: Cucumis sativus L.
Minangkabau	hantimun	cucumber
Ngaju Dayak	hantimon	the ordinary cucumber
Muna	ghotimu	cucumber
Old Javanese	hantimun	cucumber
Balinese	timun	cucumber
	ketimun	cucumber
Miri	timun	cucumber
CMP
Soboyo	timuñ	cucumber
Buruese	timun	cucumber: Cucumis sativus L.
Kei	timun	cucumber: Luffa acutangula
Yamdena	timun	cucumber
Selaru	timun	cucumber
Kédang	timu	cucumber
	timu rawaŋ	small watermelon
	timu upen	gherkin
Rembong	timun	cucumber: Cucumis sativa L.
Manggarai	timuŋ	young cucumber
Bimanese	dimu	cucumber
Li'o	timu	cucumber
Ngadha	timu nitu	kind of wild cucumber
	timu	kind of gherkin, cucumber
	timu polo	kind of creeper
Hawu	wo dimu dana	watermelon
	wo dimu poro	cucumber
SHWNG
Buli	ti-timin	kind of cucumber
Dusner	tinem	gherkin
Kowiai/Koiwai	atumin	melon, watermelon

POC qatimun cucumber ⇫ ¶

OC
Tinputz	àsìmú	cucumber

Reconstructions

PMP	qatimun	cucumber: Cucumis sativa L.
POC	qatimun	cucumber

Note

Also Ifugaw (Batad)) ahimmun ‘a cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus Linn. [cucumber plants are typically grown in newly made upland fields]; a cucumber plant (mainly eaten between meals or as a final morsel), Ngaju Dayak tantimon, Malay, Sundanese, Sasak timun, Sangir timu ‘cucumber’, Toba Batak ansimun ‘cucumber, gherkin’, Rotinese timuk ‘papaya’, Kei temun, tumun ‘cucumber: Luffa acutangula’, Kamarian timur ‘kind of watermelon’, Numfor kimu ‘calabash (inedible). The shells of some species are used as lime containers’, Numbami katimana ‘cucumber’, Motu asemo ‘small wild cucumber: Cucumis sp.’, Gitua karimon ‘cucumber’.

Citing Burkill (1935), Verheijen (1984:51) states that ‘the cucumber is certainly no native of any part of Asia further east than India’, yet concludes that it must have some antiquity in the Austronesian world. The broader linguistic evidence considered here supports the same conclusions. Although Formosan reflexes are yet to be found, the presence of cognate Oceanic forms such as the phonologically irregular Motu asemo, and Fijian timo ‘a plant: Cucumis acidus’ suggests that Cucumis sativa was present in the Austronesian world by 1,400 B.C. At the same time, the frequent appearance of last-syllable /o/ for expected /u/ is puzzling, and may point to early borrowing.