OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 467

*raqi

•  forehead; face.

Note: MRN, TOK, LAN, TUL, ROU, and all Western isolects except TOM: ra'i ‘face’; WAWₕ, MRBₕ (Esser 1927:53): ra'i ‘forehead’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:59): ra'i ‘face, forehead’; MRA (Adriani 1900:288): ra'i ‘forehead’; TOLₕ, MEKₕ tapura'i ‘forehead’ (tapu = ‘cape, projection’). [PMP *daqiS ‘forehead’ (Blust 1980:21)]