OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 444

*kopuN

•  embrace.

Note: KUL: mengkopu ‘embrace’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:57): mekopu ‘embrace’; MEKₕ: mekopu ‘kiss’. [PWMP *kepuŋ ‘surround, besiege’ (Blust 1989 273), PMP *kepuŋ ‘circle’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 1857)]