Also Toba Batak daon ‘leaf, medicine’, Arosi rawa Also Toba Batak daon ‘leaf, medicine’, Arosi rawa ‘leaf’. The secondary meaning ‘head hair’ is widespread in the languages of eastern Indonesia and the Pacific, and looks very much like a Papuan contact feature. Since this apparent innovation is found as far east as Polynesia it probably was acquired by or before Proto-Oceanic times, and then transmitted like any other feature of the language as Austronesian speakers spread eastward beyond the reach of Papuan contact. The fact that it also appears in Sama-Bajaw languages, but nowhere else in western Indonesia or the Philippines, lends strength to the hypothesis that it is due to Papuan contact, since the Sama-Bajaw almost certainly were involved in the spice trade that linked the Moluccas of eastern Indonesia with various ports in western Indonesia and the southern Philippines, and so would have had many opportunities for contact with Papuan-speaking groups.

In addition, polymorphemic reflexes in Bikol, Iban, Malay, and Gitua suggest that *dahun figured in the name for the whip snake, a small, green poisonous species that presumably is well camouflaged in foliage, and hence extremely dangerous. Although a specific term cannot be reconstructed on the basis of known evidence, this may have been PMP *hulaR dahun. The names of various birds (Iban, Malay, Sundanese, Bolaang Mongondow) fish (Malay, Sangir, Chamorro, Manggarai, Fijian, Kapingamarangi), and insects (Tombonuwo, Malay) that incorporate a reflex of PMP *dahun may be products of convergence, or retentions of terms for which the surviving evidence is too fragmentary for reconstruction, and the common element in expression such as Malagasy daun pintu ‘body of door’, Manggarai sau? para, Asilulu matanulu lau ‘door’ probably is the result of historically secondary changes.

Possibly also Buginese mad-dauŋ ‘to flutter in the breeze, as a flag or pennant’.

The agreement between Malay makan sa-daun ‘eat from the same plate’ and Fijian drau-drau ‘the leaves on which food is served up’ are a reminder that in the Austronesian world traditional ‘tables’ (at least for feasts) probably were banana leaves laid out on the ground on which the food was placed.

Also Balinese don kupiŋ ‘the tip of the ear’, Manggarai sauŋ tilu ‘shell of the ear’.