OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 489

*wiwi°

•  edge.

Note: MRN, TAL, WAW: wiwi; KOR, MEN, BNG, BAH: fifi; LAN, TUL, TOR, ROU, MRB, MRA and all West Coast isolects: wiwi. [PWMP *birbir ‘rim, edge, border’, *bi(R)biR ‘lip’ (Blust 1980 65)] Doublet: *bibi° ‘lips’.