OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  squeeze between the fingers.

Note: KUL: mompinsi ‘press between the fingers’ (as in giving a massage) «memijit»; MRBₕ (Esser 1927:41), PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:55): mompisi; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): pisi ‘squeeze between fingers’. [PMP *picit ‘squeeze out’, dbl. *pi(n)zit ‘squeeze between thumb and forefinger’ (Blust 1989 444, 456)]