OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  green.

Note: MRN, TOK, KUL, WAW, MEN, LAN, TUL, TOR, WAI, BNG, ROU: mo'uso ‘green’; TOL: mo'uso ‘green, yellow’; MEK, LAI, RAH, KOD: mo'uso ‘yellow’. Apparently in the Moronene, Kulisusu and Wawonii area, this color shades off into blue. In the Konawe area, mo'uso nine times recorded as a response to ‘green’, three times as a response to ‘yellow’. Note one Tulambatu wordlist had mo'iso. [PAN *hiZaw ‘unripe, green’ (Wolff 1982:8)]