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Where does “*banah” come from?

*banah (Proto-Malayo-Polynesian) comes from Proto-Austronesian *baNaS.

Ancestry of “*banah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Austronesian*baNaS—
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *baNaS →