OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 478

*tete

•  bridge.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina et al. 1983:56): tete ‘bridge’; KUL: nete ‘small bridge or plank’ (n unexplained); WAWₕ, MRBₕ (Esser 1927:44): tete ‘bridge’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:74): tete ‘bamboo bridge’; TOLₕ (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): tete ‘footbridge’. [PPH *teytey ‘bridge; go across’ (Charles, in Zorc 1971 2552)]