Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 490
*woo
• odor; smell.
Note: KUL: woo ‘scent, odor’ (pleasant or unpleasant); WAWₕ: woo ‘to stink’ (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:116) mompewoo ‘to smell’; BNGₕ: mefoo ‘to stink’; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:12, 36): mewoo ‘to stink’, woo ‘odor’, also meaning ‘to smell’ as a transitive verb stem; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): mewoo-woo, mowoo-woo ‘have a rotten smell’. [PAN *behew ‘odor’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 85)]