OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 491

*wulu

•  body hair; feathers.

Note: KOR, MEN, WAI, BNG, BAH: fulu; all others: wulu. Kulisusu contrasts rembe ‘body hair’ and wulu ‘feathers’. [PMP *bulu ‘down, hair, feathers’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 1130)]