OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 450

*liqoha

•  nit.

Note: KUL, MRB (Adriani 1900:291): le'uha; MRA (Adriani 1900:291): li'oho; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:19): hilo'o ‘louse egg’; TOLₕ: hilo, hiloo ‘nit’; MEKₕ: hilo-hilo ‘nit’, (dialectal) hilo'o ‘louse’ [PMP *lisehaq ‘nit, louse egg’ (Dempwolff, Zorc, in Zorc 1971 2330); compare Pamona li'oso (Esser 1927:30), also with metathesis]