ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*utus₂ send on a mission, command someone to do something

PWMP utus₂ send on a mission, command someone to do something ⇫ ¶

WMP
Casiguran Dumagat	utús	order, command; command someone to do some menial task
Tagalog	útos	command; order; mandate; edict; ordinance; law
Maranao	otos	cajole
Toba Batak	utus-an	representative
Malay	utus-an	representative
	utus	sending on a mission or embassy
	meŋ-utus	to send on a mission
Sundanese	utus	send someone
Old Javanese	utus	order, command
Balinese	utus	send (a person)

Reconstructions

PWMP

utus₂

send on a mission, command…

Note

Both the forms cited here from Philippine languages and some of the forms cited from western Indonesia (as Toba Batak utus-an) may be loans from Malay. If so, the entire comparison reduces to a relatively late innovation in western Indonesia.