Datapoint Singapore Bazaar Malay/'Body hair' and 'feather'
As far as my data is concerned, there is no situation in which my informants need to refer to body hair and feather. However, although not recorded, I heard a speaker mention bulu to refer to body hair as well as feather. This is also the case in Malay. Both Bazaar Malay and Malay have the same word for 'hair', that is, rambut/lambut.
Rambut/lambut refers only to hair on head but bulu refers to body hair or birds' feathers. The name of the fruit rambutan derives fom the morpheme rambut 'hair' + the suffix -an which means the fruit with hair while durian derives from duri 'thorn' + the suffix -an, which means the fruit with thorns.
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Identity
- Example 67-225:
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bulubuluhair[body] hair / feather
- Confidence:
- Intermediate