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’.