OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 478

*tawu°

•  testicle.

Note: WAW (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:26): tawu ‘penis’; BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:96): tafu ‘testicle’; MRB (Eelen & Ritsema 1918–1919:286): tawu (Watu dialect) ‘testicle’; MRA (two wordlists): tawu ‘egg’. Note Mori Bawah tawu can be used in the sense of ‘gentials’ in general. [Proto-Ambonese *tavu ‘testicle’ (Stresemann 1927, cited in Wurm & Wison 1975:216)]