OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 473

?*sosoQ

Variants: ?*osoQ

•  to suck.

Note: MRN (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:36): mo'oso ‘suck’; KUL: monsoso ‘suck, smoke’; BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:96): soso ‘suck up’ (as water); MRB (Esser 1927:50): monsoso ‘suck up, smoke’, mo'oso ‘suck out’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:50): mo'oso ‘suck’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:91): oso-i ‘suck up’ (as water). [PAN *sepsep ‘suck’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, INL, cited in Zorc 1971 3079)]