Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 467
*ri
• at (locative preposition of very broad scope).
Note: TAL, KUL, KOR, WAW, MEN, LAN, TUL, TOR: i ‘at’; BNG: le ‘at’; ROU, BAH: i ‘at’; MRB (Esser 1933:261, 265): i, ndi ‘at’ (the latter used with personal names and kin terms), likewise in the Watu dialect i, nde ‘at’; MRA (Esser 1933:265): Molio’a dialect i, ri ‘at’; PAD: ai ‘at’; other Western isolects: i ‘at’. Additional support for *ri is found in the lexicalization of the following two prepositional phrases.