The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

*siksik₁ delouse; preen the feathers

PWMP siksik₁ delouse; preen the feathers

WMP
Bontok siksik to remove one’s own headlice by feel only
Kankanaey siksik-an to delouse; to catch lice
Ibaloy siksik search in the hair with one’s fingers for lice and lice eggs
Ayta Abellan hikhik to remove lice from one’s hair, delouse
Chamorro sesse delouse
Cebuano hiN-siksík for birds and fowls to preen their feathers; search for nits in the head by running the strands of hair between thumb and forefinger
siksík go over an area in systematic detail to search for something, ignoring no inch
Maranao sisik take out head lice
Malay s-el-isék picking lice out of the hair; preening the feathers (of a bird)
Bare'e sisi search for lice with the fingers
Old Javanese sisik peck oneself, scratch oneself (bird looking for lice)
Balinese siksik to look at something very closely, seek something closely (e.g. lice)
Sasak ñe-ñisik delouse oneself

PWMP ma-ñiksik delouse; preen the feathers

WMP
Ibaloy me-niksik search in the hair with one’s fingers for lice and lice eggs
Toba Batak ma-nisik delouse the head
Bare'e ma-nisi search for lice with the fingers
Old Javanese a-nisik to peck, scratch
a-nisik-i to delouse