OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

Original citation: Schapper, Antoinette. 2020. Wersing dictionary. Dictionaria 11. 1–1430. URL: https://dictionaria.clld.org/contributions/wersing doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4139455

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Headword IPA Glosses
ol tuk-tukˈol tuk~ˈtuk

1. n. ‘midget, little people, person belonging to a race of short people who in myth were once believed to be present in Alor’; ‘orang pendek, manusia bangsa pendek yang dulu tinggal di Alor’

2. n. ‘(fig.) frog species that sometimes is seen standing on its back legs making it look like a person from the short race’; ‘sejenis katak yang berdiri di kaki belakang seperti orang pendek’