OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 490

*wotu°

•  to hatch.

Note: KUL: wocu'i; BNGₕ: mofotui; MRBₕ: mowotu; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): wotu (intr.) ‘hatch’, mowotui ‘break open something so as to let the insides out’; MEKₕ: mowotuhi, wotu ‘hatch’. [compare PAN *betu ‘to appear’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 106)]