OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  to peel.

Note: KUL, BNG: mongkulisi ‘to peel’; MRB: kulisi-o ‘peel it’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:30): mongkulii ‘take off bark, peel’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): kulisi (stem) ‘peel woody items (e.g. cassava) using a blade’. [PAN *kúlit (Dyen & McFarland 1970 334)]