Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 464
*puai
• to dry in the sun.
Note: MRN, TOK: mompuai, mompu'ai; TAL: mempu'ai; KUL, KOR, WAW, MEN: mompu'ai; TUL: mompo'ai; TOR, BNG, ROU, BAH, MRB, MRA, TOM: mompuai; PAD: mompuei; WAR, LAL, WIW: mombuai; ASE: mombu'ai; TOL: mombuai, mombu'ai; MEK, RAH: mombuai; LAI: mobu'ai; KOD: mobuai. [pre-PBT *po-+ wai < PMP *w+aRi ‘sun, day’ (Dempwolff, cited in Zorc 1971 3747)]