Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 428
*bali°
• allow; change; become.
Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:16): tewali ‘let, allow’ «boleh»; KUL: bali (trans. stem) ‘change’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:6): mobali ‘change’ (trans.); tebali ‘change’ (intr.); TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:153): tewali ‘become’, (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): mobali ‘change s.th.’. [compare PPH *baliq ‘may, can be allowed; happen, become’ (Charles, in Zorc 1971 0768), also PMP *baliw ‘change’ (Dempwolff, INL, in Zorc 1971 0791)]