OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 441

*kea-kea°

•  parrot or cockatoo.

Note: BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:92): kea-kea ‘cockatoo’; WAWₕ, MRBₕ: kea-kea ‘parrot’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:25): kea-kea ‘cockatoo’; TOLₕ (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:51), MEKₕ: kea-kea ‘parrot’. [compare Proto-Polynesian *ka(a)kaa ‘parrot’ (Biggs, Walsh & Waqa 1970, cited in Wurm & Wilson 1975:147)]