OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  chew’.

Note: KUL: momama ‘chew’, momamaki ‘chew on (and spit out)’; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:55): momama ‘use sirih-pinang’, minama ‘pinang’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:39): momama ‘chew betel’, momamaki ‘chew’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:71): momamaki ‘to chew’. [PAN *mamaq ‘chew’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 2428)]