OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  boil; cook.

Note: BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:57): saka (stem) ‘boil’; MRB (Mills 1981:76): monsaka ‘cook a long time’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:62): mosaka ‘boil, steam’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:114): mosaka ‘cook, boil’. [PAN *(Zz)a(ng)kan ‘cook (boil?)’ (Mills 1981 203)]