ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*pikuq₁ to bend, curve; bent, curved

PAN pikuq₁ to bend, curve; bent, curved ⇫ ¶

Form.
Kavalan	p<m>iku	to bend
	piku	bend
WMP
Bontok	pikú	to bend, as a finger or limb
Ifugaw	piku	for a linear object to be crooked
Ifugaw (Batad)	piku	for a linear object to be crooked
Cebuano	píkuʔ	for something pliant to bend into a position in which it stays; cause it to do so
Maranao	pikoʔ	to curve, swerve
	pikoʔ-an	a curve (as in a road)
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	pikuʔ-an	a curve in the river or road
Tausug	mag-pikuʔ	to bend (something, as iron or rattan)
Kayan	piku	knock-kneed
Buginese	pikku	deformed arm
Balinese	péŋkoh	curve inwards, bend inwards (a foot); one who has a bent-in foot
OC
Nggela	mbiku	to bend, as a piece of tin, curl up
	mbiku-ga	curled up

Reconstructions

PAN

pikuq₁

to bend, curve; bent, curved

Note

Also Amis piko ‘intersection, a place where there is a turn in the road’, Paiwan piku ‘elbow’, Binukid púkuʔ ‘to bend (something); be bent over’. With root *-ku(q) ‘bend, curve’. As shown by the parentheses, reflexes of morphemes that contain this submorphemic root sometimes reflect *-ku and sometimes *-kuq (Blust 1988:116-17). The Amis and Paiwan forms in Taiwan reflect *piku, the available Philippine forms reflect *pikuq, and the Kavalan and Nggela forms are ambiguous, although the subgrouping relationship of Kavalan with Amis favors an interpretation that Kavalan piku reflects an earlier form without a final consonant.