‘tree’
source: entry from Holle List; unable to verify c. 1900 note: kau alone means ‘tree’, and yon is a mysterious morpheme. It is recorded as ‘corner’ in isolation, but it also appears in final position in various terms that have no apparent relationship to one another. Some examples are: bayon ‘mouth’ (ba alone is from the form nuba ‘mouth’), goiyon ‘buttocks’ (goi alone means ‘buttocks’), haiyon ‘countryside’ (hai alone means ‘land’). The morpheme appears to serve a syntactic function that has eluded both Holle and myself.