OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  to speak (deceptively).

Note: MRN: mogau ‘to speak, to talk at length’, KUL: mogau ‘speak’, pogau ‘language’; WAWₕ: gumau ‘tell lies’; MRBₕ: megaupi ‘to tell lies’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:16): megau ‘naughty’; TOLₕ (Adriani 1914:229): gau, mogau-gau ‘cheat’. This form has undergone semantic ameliorization or pejorization. [PSS *gau(k?) ‘to work, to do’ < PIN ?*ga(hø)u(k?) (Mills 1981 16)]