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Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Oceanic *ikuʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *ikuʀ, though the etymology suffers from phonetic problems. It may have been influenced by *liqoʀ (“neck”).
Pronunciation
Noun
liko-
- tail
Further reading
- Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 364
- 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.