OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 436

*hoalu

•  eight (independent numeral).

Note: MRB, PAD: oalu; all others: hoalu. Note two Mori Bawah wordlists have o'alu ‘eight’ (with glottal insertion). The loss of h in MRB and PAD is ascribed to contamination from the other numerals, where prothetic vowel o- is regular.