OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 446

*kuru°

•  to scrape.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:41): mengkuru ‘to scratch’ «memarut»; TOL (Youngman 1998:pers.comm.): mekuru ‘scrape the surface of’ (as in scaling a fish). [PMP *kurkur ‘scratch’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 1982)]