OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  grab by handful.

Note: MRB (Esser 1933:271): moraku ‘grasp in something with one’s full hand’; PAD (Karhunen 1994:13): raku ‘handful’ (unit of measure); TOL (Gouweloos 1936:67): moraku ‘grasp a handful (of a granular substance)’. [PAN *dakuC ‘snatch, grasp’ (Blust 1983/1984 75)]