OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  grey hair.

Note: KUL: ua ‘white hair’ (loss of w unexplained); BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:86): ufa; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:82): uwe ‘grey heair’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:151): uwa ‘gray hair’; peuwa ‘grey-haired’. [PAN *quban ‘greyhair(ed) (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 0529)]