OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  sow; drop a few seeds.

Note: KUL: mowuwui ‘feed chickens’; BNGₕ: mofufui ‘sow’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): mowuwui ‘give seeds to’ (as dropping seeds into a dibble hole, or giving a small amount of feed to chickens). [PWMP *bu(q)buq ‘to sow, plant seed’ (Blust 1980 82), loss of final *q in PBT unexplained]