OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  bring out; expel.

Note: MRB (Esser 1933:387): moluarako ‘to bring outside, cause to go outside, take out, bring forth, provide a way out’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers,comm.): moluarako ‘carry or move something out’. As a middle verb, meaning ‘come out (bring oneself out)’, compare: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:42), MRBₕ (Esser 1927:33), PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:38), TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:68) meluarako ‘to go outside (of)’. [PWMP? *luqar ‘outside’ (Blust); loss of glottal in PBT unexplained]