OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 480

*tondo°

•  barrier.

Note: KUL, WAWₕ: tondo ‘fence’; BNGₕ: tando ‘small dike in rice field’ (a unexpl.); PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:76): tondo ‘fence’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:141): tondo ‘dike’ «bendung»; MEK: tondopi ‘fence’. [Pamona tondo, tondori ‘barrier, for example a small gate for the ladder opening, to prevent children from falling to the ground’ (Adriani 1928:894); PSS *tondok ‘enclosure, village’ (Mills 1975:865)]