OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 447

*lako

•  to go.

Note: PAD: leko; all others except MRB, WAW, MEN, TAL, KUL, KOR: lako. The raised vowel of the PAD form is by backformation from the participle form lumeko, where raising *a > e is regular following high vowel u. [PMP *lakaw (Blust 1981c 5)]