ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*NataD outside

PAN NataD outside ⇫ ¶

Form.
Saisiyat	latar	outside
Rukai	látaɖə	outside
Rukai (Budai)	látaɖə	outside
Rukai (Tanan)	latáɖə	outside
Rukai	latáɖə	outside
Proto-Rukai	lataɖə	outside

PMP natad cleared area around house, cleared ground in village ⇫ ¶

WMP
Masbatenyo	nátad	yard, courtyard, patio
Cebuano	nátad	yard of a house or building; sphere of work or activity
Tombonuwo	natad	yard
Kadazan Dusun	natad	courtyard, house compound
Ida'an Begak	natad	yard
Lun Dayeh	natad	a field; a resting place made along a jungle trek; weed or clear grass before planting
	natad rumaʔ	the lawn or cleared area around a house
Lun Dayeh (Long Semado)	natad	field
Lun Dayeh	natad	field
Kelabit	natad	open ground near the longhouse where children like to play spinning tops
Toba Batak	natar	open, clear, visible
Rejang	nateut	the village square, an open space in the center of the village
Old Javanese	natar	grounds, yard (in front or around a building, house, temple, etc.); ground, surface of a piece of cloth on which the pattern is painted
Balinese	natah	the complex surrounded by a wall, within which are the buildings constituting the family home; also the yard among the buildings
Bikol	nátad	the front yard of a house
	mag-nátad	to be neighbors
	ka-nátad	a neighbor
CMP
Kei	natat	yard; bald part
Yamdena	natar	dance and gathering place, village square
Rembong	natar	village; yard around a house; field
Tetun	natar	rice paddy, a field (usually covered with water)
Kambera	nataru	front yard of a house, village square
OC
Bugotu	nata	level ground, a plain; to be level

POC natar space outside the village ⇫ ¶

OC
Dobuan	natala	large uninhabited space between two villages

Reconstructions

PAN	NataD	outside
PMP	natad	cleared area around house,…
POC	natar	space outside the village

Note

Also Malay latar ‘surface, background; prevailing color’ (< Javanese), Javanese latar ‘yard or grounds around a building; background color, field’. Balinese natah probably is a loan from Javanese that underwent subsequent sound change. This leaves only Toba Batak natar as possibly pointing to *nataD rather than *natad. The basic meaning of this term evidently was ‘cleared land in a village’ (as opposed to jungle/bush), with specific reference to the cleared area around a house, or the village square used as a meeting place. From that basic sense it evolved in some languages into terms referring cleared agricultural land (Tetun), or baldness (Kei). I assume that the gloss for Saisiyat latar is underspecified.