OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 437

*hunuR

•  to burn.

Note: KUL: mohuni ‘burn’ (a field or other large area); TOL (Youngman 1991:pers.comm.): mohunu ‘light a fire which spreads’, MEK: mohunu, humunu'i ‘burn’. [PMP *sunuR ‘burn’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 3233)]