OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 439

*ipali

•  forbidden; taboo.

Note: BNGₕ: ipali; MRBₕ (Adriani 1900:295) upali; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:55): peli; MRA (Adriani 1900:295) upeli; MEKₕ: ipali. [PAN *paliSi ‘taboo’ (Wolff 1988:142)]