OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 434

*geru°

•  scratch.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:37) mogeru ‘scratch, mark’ «menggores»; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:34): geru (stem) ‘scratch’. [PAN *garus ‘scratch’ (Blust 1983/1984 129), PAN *a > *e unexplained]