The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

*biqit hold with the fingertips

PCMP biqit hold with the fingertips

CMP
Kamarian hii snap lice between the fingernails
Tetun biʔit remove with the points of the fingers; lift up suspended in the paw or claw
fiʔit lift by the fingers; take a pinch (as of tobacco); grasp (as a hawk grasps a chicken)
Rotinese biʔit tabaku take a pinch of tobacco
biʔit lift by the fingers
fiʔi pinch with the fingertips or nails; hold firmly with the fingertips