OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  boil.

Note: WAWₕ: peha ‘boil’; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:32): peha, piho ‘a sort of small sore or abscess’; TOLₕ (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:99), MEKₕ: piho ‘boil’. The Wawonii and Mori Bawah forms have unexplained lowering of *i > e. [PWMP *pi(R)sa ‘boil, carbuncle’ (Blust 1983/1984 288)]