FINISHED LOOKING THROUGH THE FOLLOWING DICTIONARIES
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PHILIPPINES
Agutaynen [Caabay et al.]  =  30  | DONE 27
Aklanon  [Zorc&Salas]      =  48  | DONE
Arta     [Kimoto]          =   3  | DONE
Batad Ifugao [Newell]      =  98  | TO DO
Bikol    [Mintz]           =  24  | DONE
Bikol  [Mintz & Britanico] =  74  | TO DO
Binukid  [Post & Gardner]  =  36  | DONE
Bontok   [Reid]            =  83  | DONE
Cebuano  [Wolff]           = 208  | LOTS MORE TO DO, COMPARATIVE ONLY
Dempwolff (1938:71)        =   2  | DONE [both invalid]
Hanunoo  [Conklin]         =  57  | DONE
Hiligaynon [Kaufmann]      = 118  | TO DO
Ilokano  [Vanoverbergh]    =  54  | TO DO
Ilokano  [Rubino]          = 101  | TO DO
Ilokano  [Constantino]     =  34  | TO DO
Isneg    [Vanoverbergh]    =  16  | TO DO
Itbayaten [Yamada]         =  96  | DONE
Kagayanen [Harmon]         =   8  | DONE
Kapampangan [Forman]       =  25  | TO DO
Pangasinan  [Benton]       =  34  | TO DO
Pangasinan  [Jovellanos]   =  67  | TO DO
Tagalog  [Panganiban)      = 118  | TO DO
Tausug   [Hassan & Ashley] =  12  | DONE
Tboli    [Awed,Underwd..]  =  28  | TO DO
Thao     [Blust 2004]      =  11  | DONE
Tiruray  [Schlegel]        =   3  | DONE
Waray    [Makabenta]       =  47  | TO DO
Waray    [Tramp]           = 161  | TO DO
W. Bkd Manobo [Elkins]     =  18  | DONE
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FORMOSA
Amis     [Fey 1986]        =   6  | TO DO
Paiwan   [Ferrell]         =   4  | DONE
Pazih   [Li&Tscuhida 2001] =  29  | TO DO
Thao     [Blust 2003]      =  11  | TO DO
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STATUS ~ FREQUENCY OF Y- FORMS IN RESPECTIVE DICTIONARIES
208	Ceb*	Wolff (1972)
161	War*	Tramp (1995)
118	Hil*	Kaufmann (1934)
118	Tag*	Panganiban (1972)
101	Ilk*	Rubino (2000)
098	Btd	Newell (1993)
096	Itb	Yamada (2002)			*R & *y merged
083	Bon	Reid (1976)
074	Bik*	Mintz & Britanico (1985)
067	Png	Jovellanos (2003)
057	Han	Conklin (1953)
048	Akl	Zorc & Salas (1969)
047	War*	Makabenta (1979)
036	Bkd	Post & Gardner (1992)
034	Png	Benton (1971)
030	Agy	Caabay et al. (2014)
028	Tbl*	Awed, Underwood & van Wynen (2004)
025	Kpm	Forman (1971)			mergers with *ñ
018	WBM	Elkins (1968)
016	Isg*	Vanoverbergh (1972)
012	Tsg	Hassan & Ashley (1994)
011  Thao	Blust (2003)			one Taiwanese loan
008	Kag	Harmon (1977)
006	Amis	Fey (1986)				one Japanese loan
003	Arta	Kimoto (2017)
004	Pai	Ferrell (1982)			some Japanese loans
003  	Tir	Schlegel (1971)
002	Demp	Dempwolff (1938)		[Both in error!]
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Robert Blust | Reaction ~ Review
In a note to PMP *qayuyu 'coconut crab: Birgus latro' in the ACD, Blust states: "Among the more than 2,200 etyma in Dempwolff (1934-38) only two, *yawak ‘monitor lizard’ and *yuyu ‘kind of large crab’, begin with *y. It is now clear that both etyma were trisyllables in which *y was medial (*bayawak, *qayuyu), and that no instances of initial *y can be reconstructed at any level in the Austronesian family tree above POc". I beg to differ. In my ZDS under "Y-Etyma", there are at least 18 etymologies that might be assigned to PPH, although under my hypothesis only 12 are PPH, while 4 are PNP and 2 are PSP. Altogether I have found  more than eighty reconstructions that delineate Philippine micro-groups. While some of the functors are clearly derivable from the marker *i preceding another root, the fact remains that this resulting *y undergoes appropriate changes in those languages where *y merges with another phoneme (unlike *i).
PPH	*ya      [common_noun-case_marker:nominative~topic]
PPH	*ya      [deic-1-root]
PNP	*ya      [ligature]
PPH	*ya7muk  'soft ~ smooth'
PNP	*ya7paw  'light(weight)'
PPH	*yakál   'tree: Shorea' Ilk, Bon, Tag, Waray, Hil, Ceb, Tsg
PPH	*yaken   'I' [pro-1-sg] Bashiic, Itawis, Itneg, Kagayanen
PPH	*yamen   'we' [pro-1-pl-excl] Ivt, Itb, Iraya, KalTagbanwa
PSP	*yami    'we' [pro-1-pl-excl] KalTagbanwa, Agutaynen, SinSubanon
PSP	*yamu    [pro-2-pl]
PNP	*yapit   'thin' Isi, CCr, Ilt, Naga
PPH	*yawyaw  'angry ~ baffled' Ilk, Central Manobo
PPH	*yay     'here' [deic-1] Mar, CasDgt, Ibl, Kyp
PPH	*yegyeg  'earthquake' Isg, CCr, SCr, Kal Tagbanwa, Samal
PPH	*yi      [deic-3-root]
PNP	*yu      [pro-2-pl-gen]
PPH	*yugyug  'shake' Akl, Hil, Mas, Ceb, Tag, Bik, KalT, Kpm, Png
PPH	*yupyup  'inhale ~ exhale'
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Dempwolff
The VLAW only had 2 etyma reconstructed with <*j>, both of which can now be shown to have come from longer reconstructions, i.e., the *y was not initial:
*yawak [large lizard]  => *bayawak [ACD] 'monitor lizard: Varanus'
*yuyu  [large crab sp] => *qayuyu  [ACD] 'coconut grab: Birgus latro'
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Note ACD sub/ *qayuyu: Also Tongan yu:yu: ‘giant land crab’, Samoan u:u: ‘the coconut crab: Birgus sp.’, Rennellese 7uu7uu ‘large sea crab’. Among the more than 2,200 etyma in Dempwolff (1934-38) only two, *yawak ‘monitor lizard’ and *yuyu ‘kind of large crab’, begin with *y. It is now clear that both etyma were trisyllables in which *y was medial (*bayawak, *qayuyu), and that no instances of initial *y can be reconstructed at any level in the Austronesian family tree above POc. 
Melanau (Mukah) b-uyew shows an animal prefix reflected also in belabaw ‘rat, mouse’ (*labaw), belangaw ‘housefly’ (*langaw ‘blowfly’), and belawa7 ‘spider’ (*lawaq), 
and the Polynesian forms cited by Dempwolff are all irregular, reflecting a reduplication of earlier *7uu rather than the expected PPn *7auu. For the semantic connection of Sundanese yuyu with the other forms cited here the reader is referred to the memorable description of the Birgus latro in Darwin Voyage of the Beagle 1839:xxx.
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