OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 437

*horu

•  to weave.

Note: KUL: horu ‘weave’ (cloth); BNGₕ (Adriani 1900:270), WAWₕ (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:33), MRBₕ: mohoru; TOLₕ, MEKₕ: humoru. Compare also Tolaki (Adriani 1914:223) hinoru nggangga ‘spider web’. [Proto-Ambonese *sedu ‘weave’ (Stresemann 1927, cited in Wrum and Wilson 1975:237)]