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pifine

Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Oceanic studies: proceedings of the first International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (1986), pages 14 and 38: Similarly, /p/ and /f/ are never interchanged in my corpus, and clearly contrast in Wuvulu, Aua /pifine/ 'woman'. […] POc *papine > PAdm *pepine 'woman, female': W/A pifine.
Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (1988): POC *na papine 'woman' > PAd *mpefine > PWAd *pefine > Aua, Wuvulu pifine.