Where does “babui” come from?

babui (Simalungun Batak) comes from Proto-Batak *babuy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian babuy, from Proto-Austronesian babuy — pig.

babui (Simalungun Batak): pig mammal of genus Sus

Definitions

  1. pig mammal of genus Sus

Ancestry of “babui”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Batak*babuypig mammal of genus Sus
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianbabuypig
3Proto-Austronesianbabuypig
Every word from Proto-Austronesian babuy →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian babuy →Every word from Proto-Batak *babuy →