OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 434

*-ai

Variants: *hai

•  to burn.

Note: BNGₕ: moai ‘to burn’ (trans.); MRB (Esser 1927:60): mo'ai ‘to burn, burnt’; PAD (Esser 1927:60): mohai ‘to burn, burnt’; TOLₕ (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:35): mohai ‘to burn’ (intr.). [PMP *w+aRi ‘sun, day’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 3747)]