OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 449

*lewe°

•  flat; broad.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:124): melewe ‘broad, wide’; MRB (Esser 1927:23): melewe ‘flat’; TOLₕ (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:65), MEKₕ: melewe ‘broad, wide’. Note one TOLₕ wordlist has melawe ‘broad, wide’. [compare PMP *labeR ‘wide’ (Blust 1980 249)]