OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 428

*bahoq

•  wet; bathe.

Note: MRN, TOK, TAL, KUL, KOR, TUL, WAI, TOR, BNG, LAL, WIW, TOL, MEK, LAI, RAH, KOD: mobaho ‘bathe (someone)’. Compare also Taloki, Kulisusu, Koroni waho ‘rain’, and Wawonii, Bungku (Adriani 1990:267) and Mori Bawah mobaho ‘wet’, which retain the original meaning of this etymon. [PAN *baseq ‘wet’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 0859), PMP (ma)-baseq ‘wet’ (Blust 1981c 141)]