OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 443

*kona

•  to hit; to touch.

Note: KUL: kona (trans. stem) ‘reach, fit, contact, touch, hit’; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:35): mongkona; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:27, 28): koono ‘hit target, come into contact with, be struck by’, mongkonai ‘get, find’; MRA (Adriani 1900:296): kono; TOLₕ, MEKₕ: kumono-i, kono-i. [PAN *kena ‘hit affected’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 1838)]