OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki

Page number: 430

*biriN

•  ear; edge.

Note: All languages except KOD: biri ‘ear’. Compare also MRN, TOK wiri ‘edge’ which retain the original meaning. [PIN *bi(d,D)ing ‘side, edge; aslant’ (Mills 1981 52)]