‘until’/’in’ (time)
source: entry from Holle List; unable to verify c. 1900 note: I was unable to verify this term. The common word for ‘until’ is bis, and there is no indication that it was a recently introduced word. There are also no known compound words or phrases retaining bihai. It is a possible dialect form, and there is a distant possibility that it could have been a since-lost cousin form to bis that has since dropped from the language (e.g. *bisai > bihai in one dialect and *bisai > bis in other dialects). Instances of s>h are found in Sula, but it would be a stretch to conclude this from a single, century-old form without knowing more about the speaker, region, or the speaker’s other word pronunciations—and unfortunately the Holle lists do not provide any of this. It is unfortunately even unclear how many speakers were consulted for each list.