Where does “bulah” come from?

bulah (Proto-Malayo-Polynesian) comes from Proto-Philippine *bulaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulaʀ — cataract of the eye.

Ancestry of “bulah”, step by step

bulah traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Philippine *bulaʀ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Philippine*bulaʀcataract of the eye
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*bulaʀcataract of the eye

via Proto-Austronesian buləS

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-AustronesianbuləSShorea albus

Words derived from “bulah”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulaʀ →Every word from Proto-Philippine *bulaʀ →