OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  great; male.

Note: WAWₕ: langkai ‘old man’; BAH, MRB, PAD, MRA, TOM: langkai ‘great, big’; MEK, TOL, ASE: langgai ‘male’; LAI: lagai ‘male’. [PIN *la(ŋ)ka(hØ)i, *la(ŋ)kay (Mills 1981 86), compare also PPH *la(gR)ay ‘testicles, manliness’ (Zorc, in Zorc 1971 2051)]