ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*punti₁ banana

PAN punti₁ banana ⇫ ¶

Form.
Trobiawan	puti	banana
Basai	puti	banana
WMP
Tsat	u¹¹ tai¹¹	banana
Jarai	pətəy	banana
Rhade	mətey	banana
Kalamian Tagbanwa	puntiʔ	banana
Central Tagbanwa	punti	banana plant
Agutaynen	ponsi	banana
Palawan Batak	púnti	banana (Musa sapientum)
Aborlan Tagbanwa	punti	banana
Tombonuwo	punti	banana
Dumpas	punti	banana
Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan	punti	banana
Kujau	punti	banana
Minokok	punti	banana
Murut (Paluan)	punti	banana
Murut (Tagol)	punti	banana
Dali'	putay	banana
Tingalan (West)	punti	banana
Kiput	puttay	banana (various types are named)
Abai Sembuak	fundi	banana
Merap	toyʔ	banana
Kayan (Uma Juman)	putiʔ	banana
Basap	punti	banana
Tontemboan	punti	banana (a number of varieties are named)
Kayan	putiʔ	banana
Siang	punti	banana
Petapa Taje	punti	banana
Bare'e	punti-ana	kind of small bat that is fond of bananas
	punti	kind of banana
Lawangan	putiʔ	banana
Ma'anyan	punsi	banana
Mori Atas	punsi	banana
Tae'	punti	banana tree and fruit (several named varieties)
Murik	putiʔ	banana
Wawonii	punti	banana
Kulisusu	punci	banana
Wolio	punti-olo	kind of banana
Lampung	punti	banana
Old Javanese	punti	banana
Sasak	puntiʔ	banana
Proto-Bungku-Tolaki	punti	banana
CMP
Sekar	fúdi	banana
Alune	uri	banana
Larike	ure	banana
Gah	fudia	banana
West Damar	usso	banana
Manggarai	punti	kind of short, sweet banana
Manggarai (Pacar)	punti	kind of short, sweet banana
Tetun	hudi	banana
Rotinese	huni	banana
Wetan	udi	banana
Wakasihu	ure	banana
SHWNG
Waropen	ui	banana
Moor	húta	banana
Irarutu	fude	banana
Kowiai/Koiwai	fun	banana

POC pudi banana ⇫ ¶

OC
Woleaian	wish	banana (Musa). Four varieties are found on Falalus which are named after their supposed islands of origin, Truk, Saipan, Yap and Ponape
Puluwat	wuur ~ wurú-n	banana, the tree and fruit
Chuukese	wuuch ~ wuchu	banana (fruit and plant)
Pohnpeian	ūt ~ uti-	banana (many varieties)
Mokilese	wus	banana
Kosraean	usr	banana
Nukuoro	hudi	banana tree
Kapingamarangi	hudi	banana plant: Musa paradisiaca and Musa nana
Mussau	uri	banana
Leipon	brudr	banana
Sori	bruh	banana
Lele	b̃ul	banana
Pak	pun	banana
Ahus	buh	banana
Loniu	pu	banana
Papitalai	brur	banana
Levei	puŋ	banana
Drehet	puŋ	banana
Bipi	pux	banana
Lindrou	bur	banana
Pelipowai	puk	banana
Nali	brun	banana
Likum	puh	banana
Titan	brul	banana
Tigak	ur	banana
Mendak	undu	banana
Kairiru	wurr	banana (generic)
Manam	udi	banana
Takia	fud	banana
Takuu	huti	banana
Gedaged	fud	banana (thirty four varieties distinguished by name)
Mengen	puri	banana
Lusi	puri	banana
Kove	puri	banana
Numbami	undi	banana
Lungga	vundi	banana
Eddystone/Mandegusu	vudi	banana (general term)
Toqabaqita	fudi	(archaic) banana tree and fruit
Bugotu	vudi	plantain, banana
Lau	fudi	banana ( substituted in recent times because occurred in name of a well-known woman)
Tuvaluan	futi	banana
Kilivila	usi	banana
Nggela	vundi	banana, plantain, both plant and fruit
'Āre'āre	husi	banana (there are many varieties)
Molima	wudi	bananas in general
Sa'a	hudi	a banana; twenty-one kinds of native bananas are named at Sa’a; the cultivation of native bananas ceased at Ulawa owing to ceremonial restrictions
Dobuan	udi	banana
Talise	vuči	banana
Bunama	hudi	banana
Arosi	hugi	banana or plantain (many named varieties)
Santa Ana	fuki	banana
Anuta	puti	banana (generic term)
Rennellese	huti	banana or plantain (either a single fruit or a bunch)
Futunan	futi	banana
Lingarak	na-vuns	banana
Southeast Ambrym	his	banana
Axamb	na-vüč	banana
Makatea	futi	banana
Wayan	vudi	plantain, Musa cultivar (Musaceae), bananas whose fruits are edible only when cooked; used by some as generic term for bananas
Fijian	vudi	bananas in general, Musa sapientum, Musa paradisiaca, Musaceae
Niue	futi	banana, plantain (many named varieties)
Anejom	no-hos	banana
Tongan	fusi	plantain or banana of any kind
Haununu	huki	banana

Reconstructions

PAN	punti₁	banana
POC	pudi	banana

Note

Also Malagasy ontsi ‘banana: Musa sapientum L. and Musa paradisiaca L.’, Old Javanese puntī ‘banana’, Buginese utti ‘banana’, Makassarese unti ‘banana (many named varieties)’, Lou mun ‘banana’, Mbula pin ‘banana, plantain (generic term)’, Rotuman futi ‘bananas, two varieties’, Niue fusi ‘banana, plantain’. The Malagasy, Buginese and Makassarese forms agree in indicating a variant *unti, but until further evidence is forthcoming these will be taken as convergent irregularities.

Probably the most controversial feature of this reconstruction is its level, which must be considered questionable for two reasons. First, PAn *beNbeN ‘banana’ can be justified on the basis of Formosan evidence. Second, evidence for the PAn (as opposed to PMP) status of *punti depends critically on the form puti in two dialects of the same language (Ketagalan), which was spoken in extreme northeast Taiwan until the late 19th or early 20th century. The Spanish occupied this area from 1626-1642, and left some clear loanwords in Kavalan, spoken just to the south of Ketagalan. Since the Spanish in Taiwan came from Manila rather than from Spain it is likely that they brought some Filipinos with them, most likely speakers of Tagalog. It is thus tempting to consider the Basai and Trobiawan words as loans from a Philippine language. The problem with this hypothesis is that very few Philippine languages have a reflex of *punti, and all known cases are found on Palawan or in the Calamian Islands, areas from which Filipinos were not likely to have been taken by the colonial Spanish. We are left, then, with abundant evidence for PMP *punti, but very tenuous evidence for a PAn reconstruction of this shape. If the Basai and Trobiawan forms are native rather than borrowed it would appear that PAn distinguished two types of bananas. If, instead, they are loans from the Philippines we must conclude either than some Filipinos from the Palawan region accompanied the 17th century Spanish colonizers of northern Taiwan, or that a reflex of *punti was still found in Tagalog or neighboring languages some 400 years ago, but has since been replaced by ságiŋ. Since *sagiŋ must be posited for Proto-Central Philippines the latter possibility seems unlikely to find strong support. Tentatively, then, both *beNbeN and *punti are posited for PAn.