OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 444

*kotu°

•  pick; break off.

Note: KUL: mongkocu ‘pick (leaves, etc.), break off’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:58, Pattiasina, Muthalib, et al. 1983:23): kotu (stem) ‘pick (as flowers, etc.)’ «memetik»; ‘break’ «memutuskan».