OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

mnis[mˈnis]

•  vi. thin; lacking thickness(eng).tipis(ind).

Bongkau ba alai mnis-mniste.Slice the cassava thinly.(eng), Iris ubi itu tipis-tipis.(ind)

Origin: Austronesian, cf. PMP *ma-nipis 'thinness (of materials)' (ACD). There are no known Austronesian languages in the region that have a reflex of PMP *ma-nipis that retains the stative prefix but where *p is lost and the vowels merge into a single syllable.

Origin: bibref R003