Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 441
*kawo°
• to beat bark cloth.
Note: WAW: kawo ‘bark cloth’; KOR, BNG: kinafo ‘bark cloth’; WAR, TOL, MEK, RAH, KOD: kinawo ‘bark cloth’. Compare also Tolaki (Adriani 1914:228) ponggawoa ‘plank for beating tree bark’. [compare PAN *kebut ‘beat’ (Lopez n.d., cited in Wurm & Wilson 1975:15)]