OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  swelling.

Note: WAW: kamba-kamba ‘flower’; BNGₕ (Adriani 1900:253): kamba ‘swelling, abcess’; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:19) kamba ‘swelling’; PAD (Lara, Lrobu, et al. 1991:24): kamba ‘(large) boil’ TOLₕ, MEKₕ: kamba ‘swelling’. [PMP *kambaŋ ‘bloom, well-up’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 1729)]