PAn *qiCeluR evidently referred to the eggs of most oviparous fauna, including insects, amphibians, reptiles and birds, but not to fish roe (*biaS). So far as the available evidence permits us to infer, *qiteluR manuk referred to the eggs both of birds and of chickens, though ‘chicken egg’ clearly was the unmarked sense. Finally, semantically corresponding expressions formed from the same free morphemes such as Sangirmanuʔ me-te-telluheʔ ‘laying hen’, Kamberamanu tílu ‘laying hen’ suggest a PMP collocation for ‘laying hen’. While it is clear that this expression consisted of *manuk followed by a verbal form of *qiteluR, the exact form of the latter word remains unclear.