OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 482

*toruku°

•  mountain; backbone.

Note: TAL, KOR: toruku ‘mountain’; WAI, BNG, BAH, MRB, MRA, TOM: torukuno ‘mountain’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:77): tokuruno ‘hill’, toruku ‘backbone’; TUL, ROU, WAR, LAL: torokuno ‘mountain’; TOL, MEK: toruku ‘back’. Note also several languages use this term in a compound meaning ‘spine’, including: BNGₕ, MRBₕ: wukuntoruku; TOLₕ: kasundoruku; MEKₕ: toolandoruku ‘backbone, spine’.