OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 453

*meeq

•  afraid.

Note: KUL: memee ‘shy, afraid’; WAW (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:119): memee ‘afraid’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:40): momee ‘afraid’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): momee ‘afraid’. Note Kulisusu also has maea ‘shy, timid, afraid’ as a doublet, probably from borrowing,; compare Wolio maea. [PMP *ma-hiaq (cited in Tryon 1995:31)]