OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 462

*pio°

•  squeeze in hand.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:34): mempio ‘press, squeeze’, (D. Andersen 1995:3) mepio ‘squeeze’; KUL: mompio ‘squeeze’ (as santan from grated coconut); WAWₕ: mopiyo; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): (stem) pio ‘squeeze, press in hand’, mombioki ‘squeeze dry (as grated coconut)’