OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 446

*laa°

•  to fly.

Note: MRN, TOK, TAL, KOR, LAN, TUL, TOR, WAI, BNG, ROU, MEK, KOD, LAI, TOL, LAL, WAR: lumaa; MRB: melumaa, lumaa. Kulisusu has lola, possibly from a reduplicated form, i.e., lola < lolaa (stem) < laa (root). [PAN *layap ‘to fly’ (Blust 1986 181), PMP *layaŋ ‘fly, hover’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 2175)]