OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 456

*ngusu

•  snout.

Note: KUL: mengunsu ‘to sniff’; MRB (Adriani 1900:292, 317, Esser 1927:48) ngusu ‘exterior mouth area, snout’; WAR, LAL, WIW, ASE, MEK, LAI, RAH, KOD: ngusu ‘nose’; TOL: ngusu ‘phlegm’. [compare Pamona nguju ‘snout’ (Adriani 1900:292), PMP *ŋusu ‘labial region’ (Blust)]