OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 452

*lua°

•  empty; expel.

Note: KUL: molua ‘empty, pour out’ (the contents of something), TOL (Youngman 1998:pers.comm.): molua ‘put something out, expel something’. As a middle verb, having the sense of ‘vomit, empty oneself’, as found in: MRN: molua; LAN, TUL, TOR, WAI, BNG, ROU: kolualua; BAH: pelua; MRB: melua, telua, kolualua; PAD: telue; MRA: melue, kolue-lue. [PWMP? *luqar ‘outside’ (Blust); loss of glottal in PBT unexplained]