OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  to break; to shatter.

Note: BNGₕ: mompepeha ‘to shatter’; WAWₕ: tepeha ‘shattered’; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:32): mompeha ‘to break, to shatter’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:54): mompeha ‘break’; TOLₕ (Adriani 1914:226), MEKₕ: tepiha ‘shattered’. This form has unexplained lowering of *i > e in Padoe and Eastern languages.