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*Rambia sago palm

PMP Rambia sago palm ⇫ ¶

WMP
Totoli	ambia	sago
Dampelas	habia	sago
Lauje	labia	sago
Ngaju Dayak	hambiæ	sago palm
Bare'e	labia	sago flour, pith of the sago palm
CMP
Wahai	lapia	sago
Alune	lapia	sago
Kola	habia	sago
SHWNG
Mayá	ꞌbi³	sago

POC Rabia sago palm ⇫ ¶

OC
Seimat	api	sago palm
Leipon	y-epi	sago palm
Sori	n-abiy	sago palm
Loniu	epi	sago palm
Papitalai	epi	sago palm
Bipi	api	sago palm
Lindrou	j-abi	sago palm
Nali	n-apiy	sago palm
Ere	key apiy	sago palm
Titan	patan api	sago palm
Nauna	paran epi	sago palm
Kairiru	rapi	sago palm
Kilivila	yabia	sago, sago palm
Gabadi	rabia	sago palm and flour
Motu	na rabia	sago palm
Gapapaiwa	rapia	sago palm
Hula	rabia	sago
Bunama	labia	sago
Tawala	labiya	sago
Tubetube	labiya	sago
Wuvulu	pia-pia	sago palm

Reconstructions

PMP	Rambia	sago palm
POC	Rabia	sago palm

Note

Also Wetan lpia, Asilulu lapia ‘sago tree, Metroxylon spp.’, lapia mutin ‘cold sago porridge’, Alune lapia, Kayeli mpia ‘sago palm’, Likum lepi, Molima labiʔa ‘sago palm’. Dempwolff (1938) reconstructed *rumbi(y)a ‘sago palm’, but reflexes of *Rambia are more widely distributed, and less vulnerable to the interpretation that they are loanwords from Malay. Nonetheless, both *Rambia and *Rumbia appear to be justified by comparative evidence. In addition, nearly all known reflexes of this form in CMP languages show p for an expected voiced bilabial stop, and this may be evidence for a third variant, but one that cannot be attributed to a proto-languages higher than Proto-Central Malayo-Polynesian.