OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki

Page number: 424

*aaN

•  hole; conduit; interior.

Note: BNGₕ: aa enge ‘nostril’; MRB (Esser 1933:294): aa ‘hole, opening’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:1): aa ‘hole’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:1): aa ‘interior, inside’. Confer also Gouweloos (1936:60). [PMP *hawan ‘clear; open space’ (Dempwolff, cited in Zorc 1971 0280)]