Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 452
*mai
• to come.
Note: KUL: arumai ‘from down there to here’; MRB (Esser 1927:60): ramai ‘towards here; to approach’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:39): mai ‘come’; MRA (Esser 1927:60): mai ‘to go in a hither direction, to come’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:71): mai ‘come on!’. [PMP *maRi (< um-aRi) ‘toward the speaker’ (Dempwolff, cited in Blust 1980:41)]453