Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 431
*botoN
• body; main part.
Note: KUL: boto ‘body’; BNG (Adriani 1900:274): foto-no ‘oneself’ (with 3rd sg. suffix); TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): boto-no laika ‘main part of a house, excluding attached parts such as a porch, terrace, or kitchen’. Compare also Moronene (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:17) and Tolaki (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:158) and Mekongga wotolu ‘body’. [PAN *be(n)teŋ ‘abdomen’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 105)]