OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  to pick (fruit).

Note: KUL: mo'upu ‘pick’ (as fruit), (upu-o ‘pick it’), mo'upui ‘pick off’ (as grains from an ear of corn); WAWₕ: moupu ‘to gather’; BNGₕ: moupui ‘to pick’; MRB (Esser 1927:41) mo'opu ‘to pick, gather’; TOLₕ (Adriani 1914:222): pupui, mombupu; MEKₕ: pupu. Eastern forms have unexplained loss of initial *p. [PMP *pupu, *pupuq (dsj. *pupul) ‘pick, pluck (as fruit)’ (Blust 1983/1984 298)]