Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 485
*tuu°
Variants: *olo-N-tuu°
• knee.
Note: MRN, TOK, TAL, WAW, MEN, LAN, TUL, WAI: tuu; KUL: cuu; KOR: engentuu; TOR, BNG, ROU, BAH, MRB: olontuu; PAD, MRA: olutu, ulutu; TOM and all West Coast isolects: lutu. It is unclear if Tolaki, etc. lutu should be regarded as a borrowing, or a development from olo-N-tuu (cmp. Malay lutut ‘knee’). [PAN *(qSØ)aleb ‘knee’ (Blust 1970 321) and PAN *(t)uSud ‘knee’ (Blust 1981b:25)]