OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 424

*(p,k,s,h)ule

•  to return.

Note: MRN (D. Andersen 1998:pers.comm.): hule ‘go home’; KUL: bansule ‘return home’, hule ‘go in a northerly or easterly direction’; BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:47): monsule ‘turn around’ «memutar»; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:29) mekule ‘return’; TOL: mbule ‘to return home’. The Present-day forms have unexplained initial consonants, p, k, s, h. [PAN *uliq (Dahl 1981b:114)]