OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 491

*wuqohi

•  to wash.

Note: KUL: mowu'ohi ‘wash by rubbing the surface of’; BNGₕ: mofoofi; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:30): mowu'ohi, mowo'ohi, mowoohi; MRA (Esser 1927:30): mowoohi; TOL (Youngman 1990:pers.comm.): mowu'ohi ‘to clean’. Padoe (Esser 1927:30) mowohoki ‘to wash’ and Tolaki mowohiki ‘wash’ may be from the same stem, but with -ki suffix and vowel coalescence, i.e. wohiki < *woohiki < *wu'ohi + ki. [Pamona mawuso'i (Esser 1927:30)]