OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 429

?*banaN

•  thread.

Note: MRN (D. Andersen 1995:4), WAWₕ, MRBₕ: bana; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:7): bana cloth’, bana-bana ‘thread’; TOLₕ: wana. The PBT form has unexplained PMP *e > *a, possibly indicating borrowing. [Makassarese bannaN (cited in Zorc 1983:2), PMP *benaŋ ‘yarn, thread’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 0944)]