OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 433

*elu

•  orphan.

Note: MRB (Esser 1927:32): elu-elu ‘orphan’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:14): elu-elu ‘orphan’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:30): ana elu ‘orphan’. [PAN *(q)ilu ‘orphan’ (Blust 1970 337), PMP *i > *e unexplained]