OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  to request.

Note: KUL: momoni ‘request’; WAWₕ (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:120): momoni ‘to request, to dun’; TOLₕ, MEKₕ: mongoni ‘request’. Note TOLₕ has mongoni-ngoni ‘to worship’. With irregular *ng > m in Kulisusu and Wawonii. [PMP *ŋeni ‘beg, ask for’ (Blust 1986 223)]