OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 486

*uwi

•  tuber.

Note: KUL, WAWₕ: uwi; BNGₕ: ufi; MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:25), MRBₕ, PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:82), TOLₕ, MEKₕ: uwi. [PAN *qubi(h) ‘yam’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, cited in Zorc 1971 0531)]