OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  ripe; done (hence red).

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:54), KUL, BNGₕ, WAWₕ, MRBₕ (Adriani 1900:291), MRA (Adriani 1900:291), TOLₕ, MEKₕ: motaha ‘ripe, done’. Compare also these isolects MRN, TOK, ROU, BAH, MRB, PAD, MRA, WAR, LAL, WIW, ASE, LAI, RAH, KOD: motaha ‘red’. [PMP *tasak ‘ripe’ (Charles 1973:23)]