OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 488

*wawa

•  to take along; carry.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:16): wawaako ‘to carry’; KUL: mowawa; BNGₕ: fafa-o; WAWₕ: wawa-o; MRB (Esser 1927:43, 44): mowawa; PAD (Larra, Larobu, et al. 1991:83), MRA (Esser 1927:44): mowawo ‘bring’; TOL: mowawo, wawei. Note Andersen (1995:6, 8) gives Moronene moowa, wowa, with a > o possibly due to the influence of the sorrounding labials. [PAN *baba ‘bring, carry’]