OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 441

*keke°

•  armpit.

Note: KUL, WAWₕ (Adriani 1900:252), BNGₕ (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:85), MRBₕ MRA (Adriani 1900:290): keke; TOL: mombeasinggeke ‘carry under the arm’. [compare Proto-Polynesian *ke(q)eke(q)e ‘armpit’ (Biggs, Walsh & Waqa 1970, cited in Wurm & Wilson 1975:8)]