Reconstruction:Proto-Trans-New Guinea/mugu

This Proto-Trans-New Guinea 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-Trans-New Guinea

Noun

*mugu

banana

Descendants

Fataluku: muɁu
- → Dobel: muɁu
→ Kannada: ಮೋತೆ (mōte)
→ Sanskrit: मोच (moca) (see there for further descendants)
→ Tamil: மோத்தை (mōttai)
→ Tulu: ಮೋತೆ (mōte)

References

Blench, Roger (2016) “Things your classics master never told you: a borrowing from Trans New Guinea languages into Latin”, in Academia.edu‎, Academia, Inc.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29744713_Banana_Cultivation_in_South_Asia_and_East_Asia_A_review_of_the_evidence_from_archaeology_and_linguistics

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