OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  chisel.

Note: BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:90): pao; MRB (Esser 1927:53): pa'o; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:54): pa'u (u unexplained); TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:95): pao ‘chisel’, mombaoti ‘to chisel something’. [PAN *paqet ‘chisel’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 2545)]