Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 481
*tongaq
• middle.
Note: KUL: tonga ‘waist, middle’; MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:40), BNG (Adriani 1900:260), MRB (Esser 1927:35), PAD (Adriani 1914:233), PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:76), TOL: tonga ‘middle’. [PAN *teŋaq ‘middle, half’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 618)]