Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 427
*asa
• one (indepedent numeral).
Note: MRN, TOK: me'asa, TAL, KOR, WAW, TOR: asade (= asa +-de an emphatic particle); KUL: isa,²⁰⁵ saade; LAN, TUL: asao; MEN, BNG, ROU, BAH: asa; MRB (Esser 1933:274f): asa ~ aasa; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:1; Karhunen 1991:193); aaso, shortened to aso in certain contexts; MRA, TOM: aso; all West Coast isolects: o'aso. Compare Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. (1982/1983:112) who give the Wawonii form not as asade but as aasa. [PAN *asa (dbl. *esa, *isa) (Blust 1980 18)]