OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  lips.

Note: MRN, TOK: wiwi; KUL, WAW, LAN, TUL, TOR, ROU: wiwihuu ‘lips’ (huu = external mouth area); KOR, MEN, BNG: fifihuu ‘lips’; BAH: fifi ‘lips’; MRB, MRA: wiwi ‘lips’; TOL: bibi ‘lips’. [PWMP *birbir ‘rim, edge, border’, *bi(R)biR ‘lip’ (Blust 1980 65)] Doublet: *wiwi° ‘edge’.