OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 472

*sipiQ

•  tongs.

Note: BNG (Adriani 1900:257), MRB (Esser 1927:30), MEKₕ, TOLₕ (Adriani 1914:223): sipi. [PPH *sipit ‘[clamp] forceps; hairpin; pincher’ (INL, in Zorc 1971 3159)]