kuku-

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kuku (“finger, fingernail”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kukuh (“claw, fingernail”), from Proto-Austronesian *kuSkuS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuku/

Noun

kuku-

1. finger

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)