OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 486

*waaq

•  flood; flow.

Note: KUL: waa ‘flow, flood’; MRB (Esser 1933:336): ngkawaa-waa ‘all the time just flowing’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:82): waa ‘washed away’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:152): waa ‘to flow’. [PAN *b₁aSaq (cited in Prentice 1974:63)]