Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 469
*rungku°
• thin; sickly.
Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:96): morungku ‘sick’; KUL: morungku ‘lame, atrophied’; BNGₕ (Adriani 1900:267) MRBₕ: morungku ‘thin’ (scrawny); PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:61): morungku ‘thin (person)’; TOLₕ, MEKₕ: morunggu ‘ill’ (Adriani 1914:225) morunggu ‘have rheumatism’, TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:112): runggu ‘sickness’. [compare PMP *ruŋkuk ‘hunched over’ (Blust 1986 93), PWMP *ru(ŋ)kuq ‘bowed, hunched, as from age’ (Blust 1983/1984 323)]