OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 476

*tapa

•  smoke; grill.

Note: KUL: tapaa ‘storage shelf above hearth’; WAWₕ, BNGₕ: montapa ‘to grill’; MRBₕ: montapo-e ‘to grill’, (Esser 1933:366) tapaa ‘drying rack, smoke rack above the hearth’; TOLₕ, MEKₕ: tapo-i ‘grill it’. [PAN *Capa ‘smoke’]