OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 456

*ngeaN

•  name.

Note: MRN: nee ‘name’, (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:37) monee ‘accuse’ (n unexplained); KUL: ngee ‘name’, ngineahako ‘be named with’ (which preserves original a of the root); TOK, TAL, MRA, PAD: nee (n unexpl.); all other Eastern isolects: ngee ‘name’. [Muna nea (Van den Berg 1991a:49), PMP *ŋajan (Blust 1981c 63)]