OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  spouse.

Note: MRN: rapi ‘spouse’; KUL: rapi ‘kitchen’; TOL (some wordlists), WIW: rapu. The stem rapuR ‘spouse’ is plausibly a backformation from merapuR ‘to be married’, originally ‘to have a home/hearth’. [PAN *DapúR₃ ‘hearth’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 207)]