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(Dempwolff: *kenaŋ ‘longing, yearning’)

yearning: longing, yearning

WMP
Ngaju Dayak	kenaŋ	longing, yearning; sorrow
Malay	kənaŋ	pondering over memories (covers loving thoughts, vain regrets, and the memory of those who are dead)

Borrowing from Malay. Dempwolff (1938) reconstructed *kenaŋ ‘longing, yearning’.

yellow

WMP
Kayan	kuniŋ	yellow
Kiput	kuniə	yellow
Melanau (Mukah)	kuniəŋ	yellow
	mə-ŋuniəŋ	to become yellow, ripen (as rice in the field); make something yellow
Ngaju Dayak	kamuniŋ	interior forest tree with beautiful yellow wood
	kaniŋ-an	brass
Malay	kuniŋ	yellow
	kuniŋ-an	brass
	kə-kuniŋ-an	yellow trappings or hangings (indicating royal ownership)
Old Javanese	(a)-kuniŋ	pale yellow, ivory-colored; copper (adj.)
Javanese	kuniŋ	yellow; (of skin) light, fair; ripe (of rice growing in the field); egg yolk
	kumuniŋ	a certain tree with small fragrant flowers and yellow wood

Borrowing from Malay. The relationship between this term and PMP *kunij ‘turmeric: Curcuma longa (tuber that yields a yellow dye)’ remains unclear. The latter term regularly became 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 Malay speakers, although borrowing from Karo Batak to Malay seems very unlikely. Terms for 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.

yel yie yok you

yield: title, yield, results

WMP
Ngaju Dayak	asil	yield, income, tax
Banjarese	hasil	rent, tax
Iban	asil	tithe, tribute, revenue, reward, profit, returns
Maloh	asil	yield, result
Malay	hasil	usually: rent, tax; products of the country, exports
Dairi-Pakpak Batak	(h)asil	rent, tax
Sundanese	hasil	fruits of the earth; harvest; profit; advantage
Javanese	asil	income; product; results
Balinese	asil	result, crop, yield
Sasak	(h)asil	yield, result

Borrowing, ultimately from Arabic.

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yoke

WMP
Toba Batak	auga	yoke used to connect water buffaloes
Old Javanese	yuga	yoke; pair, couple, set (of clothes)
Sasak	ayuga	yoke used with plow animals
Makassarese	ayoka	yoke for water buffalo

Borrowing, ultimately from Sanskrit.

young leaf, plant shoot

WMP
Kapampangan	lábuŋ	young leaf, bamboo shoot
	ma-lábuŋ	leafy (healthy)
Tagalog	labóŋ	tender and edible bamboo shoot
Hanunóo	lábuŋ	leaf

Probably a borrowing of Malay reboŋ ‘bamboo shoot when young, soft and edible’.

(Dempwolff: *buŋsu)

youngest child

WMP
Tagalog	bunsóʔ	youngest (said of offspring); endearing term
Iban	anak bunsu	youngest child in a family; joint (in wood work); final tuck of knot or lashing; last knot in finishing a mat, point or climax of a story
Malay	boŋsu, bonsu, buŋsu	youngest-born; minimus (or minima); familiar name for youngest of a family
Acehnese	buŋsu	youngest child, last-born
Minangkabau	busu	youngest child in family
Sundanese	buŋsu	the youngest of two or more children
	buŋsu-na	the youngest
Old Javanese	wuŋsu	the youngest (in a family)

Borrowing from Malay.

Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, web edition
Robert Blust and Stephen Trussel
www.trussel2.com/ACD
2010: revision 6/21/2020
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