OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Kroon (2016): Lamaholot Solor

Page number: 312

gemetuk[gəmətuk]

•  v. make a sound like the sound of house lizard (gecko) to express refusal or disagreement.

Na'é gemetuk nuã go mari na'é doré pohé'é ola mãHe refused by 'gemetuk' when I asked him to go to work in the garden