ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*ŋuda young, of plants

PMP ŋuda young, of plants ⇫ ¶

WMP
Sangir	ŋura	young forest, low scrub
Simalur	ma-ŋura	young, virginal
Karo Batak	ŋuda	tender, young
	bapa ŋuda	father’s younger brother
Bare'e	tau ma-ŋura	young person, a youth
	ma-ŋura	young, not yet old; soft to the touch; of colors, light
	yopo ŋura	young vegetation that sprouts up in cleared land
Balinese	ŋuda	young, youthful, undeveloped, fresh
	ŋuda-han	younger, too young; premature (of a birth)
Malagasy	ta-nora	young, juvenile
Proto-Sangiric	ŋuda	young
CMP
Yamdena	ŋude	young, of children, fruit, wood, bamboo
Adonara	me-nura	green
Tetun	nura-k	young, of trees, plants and fruits

Reconstructions

PMP

ŋuda

young, of plants

Note

Also Malay uda ‘young (in certain expressions only), Toba Batak uda ‘father’s younger brother’, Simalur udo ‘father’s sister’s husband’, Balinese uda ‘young, fresh; naked’, Sasak odaʔ ‘unripe (of fruits), not yet fully developed (bones)’, Tae' ura ‘young’.

Dempwolff (1938) posited *uda, assuming that the forms cited here under *muda and *ŋuda contain fossilized affixes. Although a morphologically complex analysis is possible to maintain in some languages with muda (< *ma-uda?), it is more difficult with *ŋuda, where no appropriate affix of the shape *ŋ is available. To account for the variation in initial consonant across a wide range of languages I prefer to reconstruct doublets, and assume that *ma-ŋuda (with stative prefix *ma-) was reanalyzed in a few languages as a dynamic verb maŋ-uda, thus giving rise to a new base uda, which then underwent a new cycle of affixation with *ma- The motivation for such reanalysis seems fairly transparent, since *_ŋ-_initial bases are rare, and most of these refer to the oral or nasal region of the face (Blust 2003a).