OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  one (bound numeral).

Note: MRN (D. Andersen 1994:3): asa; KUL: sa-; WAW (Manyambeang, Muthalib, et al. 1982/1983:112), BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:83), MRB (Esser 1933:268): asa; PAD (Karhunen 1994:36): aso; TOL: aso. Compare Adriani (1900:276) who gives Bungku sa-‘one’. [PAN *asa (dbl. *esa, *isa) (Blust 1980 18)]

Note: fn205: Kulisusu alone among Bungku-Tolaki languages has a form isa (sometimes pronounced lengthened iisa), which distribution suggests borrowing from Wolio. The Kulisusu form isa used in straight counting (e.g. isa, orua, otolu…‘one, two, three…’) while the form saade is used in counting objects (saade kuro, orua kuro, otolu kuro ‘one cookpot, two cookpots, thre cookpots…’).