OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  only; just.

Note: KUL: sabucuno ‘just then’ (discourse marker signaling direct sequencing of events); MRBₕ (Esser 1927:42), PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:11): butu ‘only’ (t for expected **s unexplained); TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:24, 113) sabutu ‘just’; sabutuno ‘just as, at the same moment as’. [PPH *butuŋ ‘only, sole’ (Zorc, cited in Zorc 1971 1196)]