Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 446
*laa°
• spread out over space or time.
Note: KUL: molaa ‘far apart, spaced apart (e.g. bamboo slats of a floor), spread out in space or across time’; MRB (Esser 1927:14): molaa ‘seldom, spaced far apart’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:41): molaa ‘seldom’; TOLₕ: molaa ‘now and then, occasionally’. [PMP *lawas ‘long time; endure’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 2167); PAN *lawas (dbl. lawa) ‘wide, broad’ (Blust 1986 180)]