OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Sneddon (1978a): Proto-Minahasan

Page number: 148

*kəpkəp

•  embrace; hold against one's body.

Note: Tdn kəʔkəp 'cover, enclose'; Tse, Tbl kəpkəp 'cover; embrace, hold to one in arms'; Ttb kəʔkəp/kəikəp 'embrace, enclose; fold the arms'; Tsw kəkəw 'carry in hand held against breast' [PPh *kepkep 'embrace, hold, grip'].