OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 482

*towuaN

•  wasp.

Note: KUL: towua; BNGₕ: tofua; MRBₕ: towua; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:78): towue; MEKₕ: towua. [PAN *tabu-an ‘[insect] bee; noisy insect’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 3297)]