OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 466

*raki

•  fine dirt.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:11), BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:87), MRB (Esser 1925): raki ‘skin dirt’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:58): raki ‘fine dirt on the body’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:107): meraki ‘covered with fine dirt’. [PAN *daki ‘dirt on the skin’ (Blust)]