ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*siRi a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena

PMP siRi a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena ⇫ ¶

WMP
Palauan	sis	ti-plant, Cordyline
OC
Hawaiian	kī	a woody plant (Cordyline terminalis) in the lily family
Chuukese	tii-n	a shrub, Cordyline terminalis (unopened leaves are used to treat stomach disorders, bark is used to relieve constipation)
Aua	ti	Dracaena
	ci	a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena
Kuruti	siy	a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena
	siy	Dracaena
Ere	siy	Dracaena
	siy	a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena
Titan	patan-ci	a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena
Eddystone/Mandegusu	jiri	a plant, general term for Dracaena sp.
Arosi	diri	Dracaena
Rotuman	jī	plant with ornamental leaves and a sweet root: Cordyline terminalis
Samoan	tī	shrub (Cordyline sp.) famous in Samoan legend, the leaves and root of which are used for a number of different purposes
Araki	jihi	croton: Codiaeum variegatum
Tongan	sī	plant with ornamental leaves and a sweet root: Cordyline terminalis
Tolai	ir	leaf of the croton
Wuvulu	ti	Dracaena
	si	a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena

Reconstructions

PMP

siRi

a shrub: Cordyline, Dracaena

Note

Also Malagasy síly ‘a shrub, Croton sp.’. Chowning (1963) reconstructed "PMel" *dili, and Milke (1968) POc *ntiRi ‘ornamental shrub, cordyline’, but it is now clear that all reflexes cited by them are attributable to *nsiRi. Geraghty (1983) points out the impossibility of reconciling Rotuman jī (cited by Milke) with *ntiRi, and correctly identifies the Polynesian forms as containing the "third palatal reflex" (Blust 1976). Tolai, various languages of the Admiralty Islands, Chuukese, and Palauan all provide independent support for *s-.

Finally, it is unclear whether *sabaqaŋ (q.v.) replaced *siRi in PWMP, or coexisted with it. The answer to this question depends heavily on the position of Palauan within the proposed WMP group of languages.