OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 479

*tinti-ngara°

•  to lie supine.

Note: WAWₕ: tintingara; MRBₕ: sinsingara; TOLₕ: tindingara, tindiranga; MEKₕ: tindingara. The Mori Bawah form is likely a borrowing from Mori Atas or Padoe, where t > s before high vowels is regular (compare also Mori Bawah tinti opo ‘to lie prone’). The Konawe form tindiranga exhibits irregular metathesis, possibly from contamination from merangga ‘to lie prone’.