Possibly identical with POc *lapaq ‘various flat fishes, including sole and flounder’ in
Osmond (2011:118). However, Osmond’s reconstruction cannot be justifed by the evidence
she presents. First, the final consonant of her *lapaq evidently is based on Loniulapak, but Loniu reflects POc *q as zero, not as /k/ (Blust 1978). Furthermore, all languages of the eastern Admiralties have reduced POc CVCVC to CVC by loss of the last -VC, yet she cites both Titanlapa and Loniulapak as evidence for *lapaq, when this would be a fundamental
irregularity in both languages. Since all of the other forms that she cites in support of her reconstruction show one or more irregularities her proposed POc *lapaq should be abandoned until better evidence becomes available.