*bh-r/l- “bright, castle, bank, high,            
          and many other strange things etc”
          (or numinous light above island?)


PMA
  vara            “to keep, ward off”     Sanskrit
  vari            “enclosure”
  pali            “line, row, bank, dike”
  pur             “fortified city, 
                   citadel, fortress”
  palli           “village”
  pur             “exogamous units among the
                   Sakadwipi brahmins of Bihar, marriage is not allowed
                   within the same pur, although marriage may take place
                   within the same gotra”

  varna           “race, species, caste, 
                   kind, form, character,
                   nature, color”         Sanskrit

NDAP 106:
  *pur-           “house”                 Dravidian
  *bir-/*bur-     “fort, fortress”        AfroAsiatic

NDAP 107:
  *ur-            “place”                 Dravidian
  *u:r-           “village, town, house”  Dravidian
  *ar-            “room, house”           Dravidian
  *w[a|u]r-       “kin, family, house, 
                   village, city, place”  AfroAsiatic
  *?(a)yr-/?ary-
                  “city, house”           AfroAsiatic
  *wer-           “fort, fortress, city”  Indo-European
  *werV-          “place”                 Finno-Ugrian
  *orun           “place”                 Turkic-Mongolian
  uru             “city”                  Sumerian

PMA
  burunga-        “clan”                  Arosi
  barangay-       “communal unit usually 
                   smaller than village, 
                   ship”                  Philippines
  baronga-        “character, disposition,
                   nature”                Arosi
  perangai-       “character, nature, 
                   disposition”           Indonesia, Malay
  bal.u-          “village, community, 
                   house”                 Proto-Austric(Benedict)
  fera-           “village”               Proto-Malaitan
  puruwa-         “village”               Faita
  peuru-          “village”               Bilua
  felakoe-        “village, ship”         Lavukaleve

TP: 
  So, what does all this "village, mountain, bright, sky, bank, high"
  have in common? This may be an explanation:

from PMN: 
  A more romantic method [than those previously mentioned
  for detecting islands beyond the horizon]
  is the detection of aura reflected off clouds,
  or the radiation rising off islands in the midst of a cool sea.
  Obviously, these methods are not well-known even to those who have
  investigated Austronesian navigation.


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