Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 427
*auN
• sadness; longing.
Note: MRN (D. Andersen 1995:5) me'au ‘sad’; KOR, KUL: umau ‘weep’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:51): mo'o'au ‘have sorrow’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): moko'au ‘feel longing for s.th.’, cmp. mo'au ‘lonely, deserted’, also ‘melodious, sweet (soud), apparently a sound which causes one to feel longing’. [PAN *qauN ‘howl, wail’ (Blust 1980 26)]