OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 480

*donta°

Variants: *tonda°

•  to fall.

Note: BNG: medonta, tedonta; TOR, BAH, TOM, MRB, PAD, MRA: tedonta; MEK, TOL, WIW, ASE, WAR, LAL: motonda; LAI: motoda. Compare also BNGₕ modontangi ‘to throw away’. Note Esser (1927:45) also gives MRB rumonta ‘fallen off’.