OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  empty rice shell; husk.

Note: Sangir, Bantik, Ratahan kepa empty rice shell (in which fruit has not developed); chaff which blows away in winnowing; Sangil kepa, Talaud epa rice husk. [ct. PPh (Charles) *(q)əpa rice chaff].