OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  extremity; tip; projection.

Note: BNGₕ: tapu susu ‘nipple’ (lit. tip of the breast); MRBₕ: tapu uo ‘nipple’, also Watu dialect has tapu ‘extremity, tip, edge’ (Esser 1933:268); PAD (Karhunen 1994:26): tapu ‘tip’; TOL: tapu ra'i ‘forehead’. [PPH *tapus ‘finish, end’ (Zorc, in Zorc 1971 3448)]