ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*kilkil gnaw meat off bones

PWMP kilkil gnaw meat off bones ⇫ ¶

WMP
Masbatenyo	mag-kilkíl	pick the bones clean, as in eating fried chicken
Toba Batak	maŋ-hilhil-i	to chew something
	maŋ-hilhil	to chew
Malay	kikil ~ kekel	a preparation of buffalo meat
Javanese	kikil	leg of lamb, calf, etc. as food

Reconstructions

PWMP

kilkil

gnaw meat off bones

Note

Dempwolff positied *kilkil ‘eat greedily’, based only on the Toba Batak form given here and Malay kikil ‘greedy’. Wilkinson (1959) does not contain the latter word.