OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 430

?*bo(n)so°

•  enclose.

Note: BNG (Adriani 1900:254): boso ‘curtain’ (Hani 1969:32) bonso (transitive stem) ‘shut out’; WAW (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:119), MRB (Mills 1981:73): bonso ‘door’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:21): boso ‘corral, stable’. [PAN *be(ñ)ce(C) or *bu(ñ)cu(C) ‘to curtain off, to enclose’ (Mills 1981 155)]