OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 456

*niniQ

•  mosquito.

Note: KUL: nini ‘k.o. small mosquito’; BNG (Adriani 1900:252): nini ‘fly’; LAN, TUL, MRB, BAH, TOM: nini ‘mosquito’; MEK, KOD, RAH: onini ‘mosquito’. [PMP *niknik or *ñikñik ‘gnat, fruitfly’ (Blust 1983/1984 85)]