OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 483

*tuko°

•  staff; walking stick.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:44), MRB (Esser 1927:36): tuko ‘stick, staff’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:78): tuko ‘stick’, cmp. ue ntuko ‘great-grandparent’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:146): tuko ‘cane, walking stick’. [PMP *tu(ŋ)ked ‘support; staff, prop’ (Dempwolff, INL, in Zorc 1971 3673)]