OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Sneddon (1984a): Proto-Sangiric

Page number: 70

*bəbuk

•  wood borer; dust (of damaged wood).

Note: Sangir bəbuʔ, Ratahan βuβúk wood borer; Talaud babbuʔa, Bantik bubuʔ dust, powder (of wood damaged by borer) [PPh *bukbuk (insect) wood borer; dust].

Note: see footnote 104