Borrowing from language__Malay. The relationship between this term and language__PMP *kunij ‘turmeric: Curcuma longa (tuber that yields a yellow dye)’ remains unclear. The latter term regularly became language__Karo Batak kuniŋ ‘turmeric’, since final voiced stops were nasalized in Northern Batak. It is possible that it was acquired in this form by early language__Malay speakers, although borrowing from language__Karo Batak to language__Malay seems very unlikely. Terms for language__PMP *kamuniŋ ‘a tree: Murraya spp.’, on the other hand, appear to be monomorphemic, but may have been reinterpreted in languages that have kuniŋ as affixed forms of this base.