OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 489

*wohuR

•  satisfied.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:130): mowohi; BNGₕ (Adriani 1900:267): mohofi (< metathesis); WAWₕ, MRBₕ (Esser 1927:34): mowohi; TOLₕ, MEKₕ: mowohu. Compare also TOLₕ tewohua ‘to belch’. [PMP *besuR ‘full, satisfied’ (Dempwolff, cited in Zorc 1971 0968)]