turu-

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *turu, variant of *tur, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhud, from Proto-Austronesian *tuduS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /turu/

Noun

turu-

1. knee

Further reading

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
• 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)