OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 458

*ontoN

•  to see.

Note: MRN, TOK, TAL, KUL, KOR, WAW, MEN: mo'onto; BNG, TOR, LAN, TUL, WAI: mo'unto (u unexplained); MRB (Esser 1927:23) mongkokonto ‘to stare, to look fixedly at something’; TOL (some wordlists): monggondo (stem kondo). Velar onset unexplained in Mori Bawah and Tolaki. [PPH *eNteŋ ‘see, observe’ (Charles, in Zorc 1971 0358)]