ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*qumaŋ hermit crab

PAN qumaŋ hermit crab ⇫ ¶

Form.
Kavalan	umaŋ	kind of hairy hermit crab
WMP
Itbayaten	omaŋ	hermit crab (on land); it is used as bait for fishing
Ilokano	úmaŋ	hermit crab; also said of a person who continually changes his residence
Chamorro	umaŋ	hermit crab -- land (Paguridae)
Kalamian Tagbanwa	kumaŋ	hermit crab; be emptied of contents
Aklanon	úmaŋ	hermit crab
Cebuano	úmaŋ	hermit crab; use, wear something belonging to someone else
Palauan	ʔum	type of snail; hermit crab
Mansaka	omaŋ	kind of snail which has no shell of its own, but takes over other shells
Simalur	umaŋ	land crab
Iban	umaŋ	dependent on others, orphaned; hence generally poverty-stricken
Nias	huma	hermit crab
Mongondow	umaŋ	hermit crab
Tialo	umaŋE	land snail, slug
Bikol	umáŋ	hermit crab
	úmaŋ	hand-me-downs, used clothes
CMP
Buruese	uman	a hermit crab, possibly Pagurus pollicarus
Erai	uman	snail, slug

POC qumwaŋ hermit crab ⇫ ¶

OC
Marshallese	omw	hermit crab \nq The "mw" in this form is what in the Marshallese-English dictionary describe as a 'heavy' (= pharyngealized) bilabial nasal; they use a cedilla under the 'm'. In some other languages of Micronesia (and Melanesia) which reportedly have a bilabial nasal different from
Rennellese	ʔuŋa	hermit crab: Coenobita olivieri
Samoan	uŋa	name given to hermit crabs in general
Fijian	uŋa	the hermit crab: Cancer dubius
Niue	uŋa	the coconut crab
Tongan	ʔuŋa	large hermit crab

Reconstructions

PAN	qumaŋ	hermit crab
POC	qumwaŋ	hermit crab

Note

Also Sundanese umaŋ (expected **humaŋ) ‘the murex, which has no shell of its own, but houses itself in the shells of other marine animals’. This form, and the occasional mention of various snails in connection with other forms, may indicate that *qumaŋ included referents other than the hermit crab, though in some cases (as Mansaka) the glosses appear to be little more than misconceived allusions to the hermit crab. All Oceanic reflexes cited here reflect an etymon with labiovelar nasal.