OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  laugh; tickle.

Note: MRB (Esser 1927:39): mogele ‘to tickle’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:34): gele-gele ‘amusing, funny’. [PMP *geli ‘laugh, tickle’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 1537); *i > PBT *e unexplained]