OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

kdesi[kˈdɛsi]

•  n. sago starch; starch extracted from the spongy centre of sago palms.makanan sagu.

Keser aning kdeisa gnai.Kisar people eat sago., Orang Kisar makan sagu.

Encyclopedic info: The Wersing do not usually eat sago. However, in the past, sago was one of the trading goods brought to Alor by people from Maluku, such as Kisar.

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