OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  front.

Note: BNG, BAH, MRB, PAD, MRA, TOM, RAH: aro ‘front’; TAL: i aroa ‘in front’. Compare also MRB, TOM aro ‘face’, MRB (Esser 1927:36), PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:4) aroa ‘mind, heart’, and TOLₕ, MEKₕ: wunggu aro ‘chest’. [PMP *qadep ‘front’ (Dempwolff, cited in Blust 1986:11), PWMP *arep ‘chest’ (Blust 1986 2)]