OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 490

*wotu°

•  time; season.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:95), TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:158): wotu ‘time’; MEKₕ: wotu oleo ‘dry season’, wotu usa ‘rainy season’. [compare PAN *betu ‘to appear’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 106)]