OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 152

*lagaʔ

•  large red tree ant.

Note: Tdn laɣaʔ, Tse, Tbl, Ttb lagaʔ 'large red ant which lives in trees' [Parigi, Kaili, Togian laga, Mdw lolagaʔ 'kind of large red ant which nests in trees'; PPh (Charles) *la(g)a/eq 'red ant'].