Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/quma

This Proto-Malayo-Polynesian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (swidden).

Noun

*quma

  1. farm

Descendants

  • Philippine
    • Northern Luzon
      • Ilocano: umá (tract of land cleared for cultivation)
      • Cagayan Valley
        • Isnag: umá (to clear a patch of ground, preparing it for a rice field)
        • Itawit: umá (clearing)
      • Meso-Cordilleran
        • Central Cordilleran
          • Bontoc-Kankanaey
            • Central Bontoc: óma (swidden; a field in an area away from the village formed by cutting and burning the vegetation)
            • Kankanaey: umá (field; patch; plot; piece of ground planted with camotes, beans, etc.)
          • Ifugao
            • Batad Ifugao: ūma (upland field; swidden, using a slash-and-burn agricultural technique)
            • Tuwali Ifugao: uma (a cleared uncultivated or forested area; swidden)
        • Southern Cordilleran
          • Karao: oma (mountainside garden)
          • Keley-I Kallahan: uma (a cleared, uncultivated or forested area)
      • Northeastern Luzon
        • Casiguran Dumagat Agta: umá (swidden; field; farm; plantation; homestead)
    • Greater Central Philippine
      • Central Philippine
        • Bikol Central: umá (farm; field)
        • Bisayan
          • Cebuano: uma (farm)
          • Asi: umá (farm)
          • Central Bisayan
            • Romblomanon: 'uma (upland field)
            • Masbatenyo: uma (farm; cultivated field)
            • Waray-Waray: umá (agriculture; clearing; country; farm; field; grange; homestead; spot)
          • West Bisayan
            • Aklanon: umá (farm)
          • South Bisayan
            • Tausug: uma (a cultivated field or farm; rice field)
      • Manobo
        • Agusan Manobo: u'ma (farm; field)
      • Danao
        • Maranao: oma (farm; field; meadow)
      • Palawanic
        • Brooke's Point Palawano: uma (garden, field for growing crops, primarily rice crops)
        • Central Palawano: uma (field; swidden; garden; slash-and-burn field)
        • Aborlan Tagbanwa: uma (upland rice or corn field)
    • Kalamian
      • Calamian Tagbanwa: kuma (swidden)
      • Agutaynen: koma (farm; fields, specifically rice fields)
    • Minahasan
      • Tontemboan: uma (garden; swidden; dry rice field)
      • Tonsea: uma (farm, field)
      • Tondano: uma (farm, field)
  • North Bornean
    • Northeast Sabahan
      • Bonggi: uma (dry rice field)
      • Ida'an: umo (dry rice field)
    • Southwest Sabahan
      • Dusunic
        • Central Dusun: tumo (farm)
        • Coastal Kadazan: tumo (farm; hill rice field)
        • Momogun
          • Rungus: umo (hill rice field)
          • Kimaragang: tumo (dry rice field)
    • North Sarawakan
      • Berawan–Lower Baram
        • Narom: umah (grass)
        • Kiput: uməh (grass)
      • Kenyah
        • Bakung: uma (rice field; swidden)
    • Central Sarawakan
      • Central Melanau: uma (cultivated field)
      • Seru: umoh (swidden)
  • Land Dayak
    • Benyadu–Bekati
      • Benyadu': uma' (field)
      • Bekati': uma' (field)
      • Rara Bakati': umak (wet field)
      • Sara: uma' (field)
    • Bidayuh
      • Bau Bidayuh: umoh (farm, field)
      • Biatah Bidayuh: ŭmŭh (farm, field)
      • Bukar-Sadung Bidayuh: umŭh / umūh (farm, field, especially paddy field)
  • Moken–Moklen
    • Moken: koma (garden; clearing)
  • Nortwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
    • Batak
      • Northern Batak
        • Karo Batak: uma / huma (field; farm)
      • Southern Batak
        • Simalungun Batak: juma (field; rice field)
        • Toba Batak: uma (field; rice field)
        • Angkola Batak: huma (cultivated field)
        • Mandailing Batak: huma (cultivated field)
  • Malayo-Sumbawan
    • Proto-Chamic: *huma
      • Acehnese: umeung
      • Coastal Chamic
      • Highlands Chamic
        • Chru–Northern Chamic
          • Chru: hơma
          • Northern Chamic
            • Northern Roglai: humã
            • Tsat: ma³³
        • Jarai–Rhade
    • Proto-Malayic: *huma(ʔ)
      • Banjarese: huma
      • West Bornean Malayic
        • Ibanic
        • Western Malayic Dayak
      • Nuclear Malayic
      • Urak Lawoi': ฮูมา (huma)
    • Sundanese: huma / ᮠᮥᮙ (huma, swidden, dry rice field)
    • Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa
      • Balinese: uma / ᬳᬸᬫ (field; rice field; arable land)
      • Sumbawa: uma (rice field)
  • South Sulawesi
    • Northern South Sulawesi
      • Mandar: uma (garden; cultivated field; dry rice field)
      • Massenrempulu
        • Duri: uma (field; garden)
        • Enrekang: uma (field; garden)
      • Toraja
        • Toraja-Sa'dan: uma (rice field)
        • Tae': uma (rice field)
    • Bugis–Tamanic
      • Buginese: uma (field)
      • Embaloh: uma (swidden)
  • Central Malayo-Polynesian
    • Bima: oma (cultivated field)
    • Sumba–Flores
      • Manggarai: uma (garden, cultivated field; clear away underbrush before felling large trees in making a new swidden)
      • Ngadha: uma (field)
    • Flores–Lembata
      • Sika: uma (garden; field)
    • Central Maluku
      • Watubela: kuma (kuma)
      • Kowiai: um (garden; plot)
  • Proto-Oceanic: *quma
    • Western Oceanic
      • Meso-Melanesian
        • Tungag–Nalik
          • Tigak: uma (garden)
        • Madak
          • Madak: uma (garden)
        • St. George
          • Tolai: uma (plantation; field)
        • Northwest Solomonic
          • Roviana: uma (make a garden)
      • North New Guinea
        • Ngero–Vitiaz
          • Ngero
            • Kove: umo (garden)
            • Gitua: umwa (garden)
          • Vitiaz
            • Sengseng: kum (to work in the garden)
            • Gedaged: um (garden; field; plantation; cultivated land)
            • Mbula: kuma (soil which is ready for gardening (after burning))
        • Schouten
          • Manam: uma (garden)
        • Huon Gulf
          • Numbami: uma (garden)
      • Papuan Tip
        • Central Papuan Tip
          • Motu: uma (garden; an enclosed cultivated plot)
            • Hiri Motu: uma (garden)
        • Nuclear Papuan Tip
          • Dobu–Duau
            • Molima: ʔuma (planted garden)
          • Suauic
            • Saliba (New Guinea): kuma (to plant)
    • Central–Eastern Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • Mota: umwa (clear away growth from a garden, the first stage in preparation)
      • Southeast Solomonic
        • Bugotu–Nggela
          • Gela: uma (clear away the bushes in making a garden)
        • Malaita–Makira
          • 'Are'are: umaa (clear the undergrowth when commencing a new garden)
          • Arosi: umwa (to weed a garden)
      • Central Pacific
        • Polynesian
          • Rennellese: ‘umanga (garden, as for yams or taro)

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