OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 485

*uni

•  sound; utterance.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:117): uni ‘sound’; KUL: uni ‘sound’, ko'uni ‘speak, utter’; KOR: ko'oni ‘speak’; MRB (Esser 1927:34): uni ‘sound’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:81): uni ‘sound, utterance’; TOL: te'eni ‘speak’ (< *te+uni). [PMP *huni ‘noise’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 0603)]