OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 485

*tutuw-i

•  to cover.

Note: MRN (D. Andersen 1995:20): tetutuwi ‘closed’; KUL: cucuwi (stem) ‘close, cover’; MRB (Esser 1927:44): montutuwi; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): metutu enge ‘close the nose’ (enge = nose). [PMP *tutup ‘to cover (up)’ (Dempwolff, INL, in Zorc 1971 3741)]