OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 429

*bine

•  seed rice; rice seedling.

Note: PAD (one wordlist): bine ‘rice seedling’; WAW, MRB (one wordlist), TOL, MEK, RAH, KOD: wine ‘rice seedling’. In Tolaki and possibly other areas, wine is also the term for ‘seed rice’. [PMP *biniq, *beniq ‘seed’ (Dempwolff)]