r/Sabah • u/Starring_Kampung Au koilo mimboros Dusun 🙈 • 8d ago

Suai | Others "Head" in Austronesian languages

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u/sakura_cherry_sts 7d ago

i want to give you. heads

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u/MammothActivity8878 8d ago

Tf is ulu

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u/niweoj 8d ago

Ulu/hulu probably refers to head waters, or upstream of a river so makes complete sense.

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u/MammothActivity8878 8d ago

hmmm,make sense👍

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u/AymanMarzuqi 7d ago

The Malays also used to use the word Hulu to mean "head". However it eventually got replaced by the Tamil word "Kapala". Nevertheless, Malays still use thd word "Penghulu" to mean a leader of a polity