OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 485

*ule

•  snake.

Note: All isolects except TOK: ule. Compare also Moronene (D. Andersen 1995:6) ko'ule ‘wormy’, Mori Bawah (Esser 1927:67) ule-ule ‘worm, caterpillar’. [PAN *quley ‘snake’ (cited in Van den Berg 1991a:29)]