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*ñəñu tree with white fruit and roots that yield a useful dye: Morinda citrifolia

PCEMP ñəñu tree with white fruit and roots that yield a useful dye: Morinda citrifolia ⇫ ¶

CMP
Asilulu	nenu maʔasi ai	kind of small tree, the roots of which yield soda
	nenu	the Indian mulberry: Morinda citrifolia L.
Leti	nenu	a tree: Morinda citrifolia
Bimanese	nonu	a tree of which the root’s bark gives a red dye: Morinda spp. (, where this word is said to correspond in meaning to Bahasa Indonesia )
Tetun	nenu-k	a tree (Morinda tinctoria) from which red dye is extracted
Moa	nienu	a tree: Morinda citrifolia
Wetan	neni	kind of tree (probably Morinda citrifolia); the fruits and decoction of the roots are used as a remedy against swollen tonsils; from the roots is also made paint (yellow, or when the wood has been mixed with lime, red)

POC ñoñu tree with inedible white fruit and root that yields a useful dye: Morinda citrifolia L. ⇫ ¶

OC
Hawaiian	noni	the Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia), a small tree or shrub in the coffee family with pale yellow unpleasant-tasting fruits. Formerly Hawaiians obtained dye and medicine from the many parts of the tree
Nukuoro	nonu	the Indian mulberry: Morinda citrifolia L.
Kapingamarangi	nonu	the Indian mulberry: Morinda citrifolia L.
Gilbertese	non	a tree: Morinda citrifolia; the fruit of this tree
Leipon	ñoñ	tree with inedible fruit; the roots yield a pink dye: Morinda citrifolia
Bipi	ñoy	short roundish tree with large leaves and small inedible fruit that turns yellow when ripe: Morinda citrifolia
Nali	non	tree with inedible fruit: Morinda citrifolia L.
Wogeo	ñoñ	tree with non-edible fruit and roots used as medicine: Morinda citrifolia
Gitua	nono	a tree, Morinda citrifolia; bark used for red dye
Tuvaluan	nonu	shrub sp.: Morinda citrifolia; fruit of
Motu	nonu	a tree: Morinda citrifolia
Anuta	nonu	a tree, of which there are two subvarieties; (with larger fruit), and
Samoan	nonu	shrub or small tree (Morinda spp.),
	nonu fiʔa-fiʔa	a tree (Eugenia sp.), the Malay apple
Futunan	nonu	a tree: Morinda citrifolia
Niue	nonu	a shrub: Morinda citrifolia
Tongan	nonu	tree with fruit that looks somewhat like custard apples: Morinda citrifolia. Its leaves and fruit are used medicinally.
Rarotongan	nono	a native tree: the Morinda citrifolia

Reconstructions

PCEMP	ñəñu	tree with white fruit and…
POC	ñoñu	tree with inedible white…

Note

Also Kapampangan líno, Tagalog níno ‘a tree: Morinda umbellata L., Morinda citrifolia L. (Madulid 2001), Bikol níno ‘shrub possessing roots from which a yellow dye may be extracted: Morinda bracteata Roxb.’, maŋ-níno ‘go to the mountains to collect these roots’, Cebuano ninú ‘small tree similar to bangkúru, but with smaller and lighter-colored leaves: Morinda sp.’, Gedaged nanom ~ nonom ‘a tree: Morinda citrifolia. Scrapings from the root are mixed with lime, which produces a red dye’, Takia nom ‘a tree: Morinda citrifolia’ Milke (1968) proposed POc *nonum ‘Morinda citrifolia’, basing the final consonant on the puzzling Gedaged form. This comparison is discussed thoroughly by Ross (2008), who notes (2008:407-408) that both Gedaged and Takia have lost POc *-VC, and that the final nasal is better interpreted as a reflex of the medial *ñ.

Ross further notes that if the Philippine forms can be compared with those in CEMP languages PMP *ñeñu can be reconstructed. However, Philippine forms point consistently to an etymon with penultimate *i and CEMP forms to an etymon with penultimate schwa. Under these circumstances the earliest form that can be securely reconstructed is PCEMP *ñəñu, although PMP clearly had either a single etymon of indeterminae shape, or doublets differing in the penultimate vowel.