OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 478

*tawaN

•  to capture.

Note: BNGₕ: mia tinafa ‘prisoner’ (mia = ‘person’); TOLₕ, MEKₕ: pinetawa ‘prisoner’. [PMP *taban ‘hold firmly, capture; booty’ (Dempwolff, INL, in Zorc 1971 3291)]