Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 451
*lomba°
• hole; perforation.
Note: KUL: kalombahano enge ‘nostril’ (enge = nose); BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:84): lomba enge ‘nostril’ (enge = nose); PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:37): lompa ‘leak’ (mp unexplained); TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:67): lomba ‘hole’, molomba ‘to make a hole in, perforate’. [PAN *Lubaŋ ‘hole’, PPH *lubak ‘hole, pit’ (Charles, in Zorc 1971 2348)]