Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 439
*(i,u)saQ
• ladder.
Note: KUL, WAWₕ: esa; BNGₕ (Adriani 1900:253), MRBₕ (Adriani 1900:295): insa, ensa; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:23): ise; MRA (Adriani 1900:288, 295): inse, ense; TOL, MEK (Adriani 1914:236): la'usa. Compare also Moronene (Adriani 1914:239) la'usa ‘ladder’, presumably borrowed from Tolaki; the first syllable la is shortened from laa ‘stem, trunk’ (long object). [PMP *iNZak ‘step on; dance(Dempwolff, cited in Zorc 1971 0476)]