OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  loose.

Note: KUL: molongko ‘loosen’ (as coconut meat from the shell by striking the shell); WAWₕ (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:113): molongko; BNGₕ: longko; TOLₕ (Adriani 1914:225), MEKₕ: molonggo. Pamona longko ‘wide, roomy, loose’ (Adriani 1928:s.v.) [compare PMP *luNga(R,r) ‘roomy, loose’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 2385)]