OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Dol (2007): Maybrat Ayawasi

Original citation: Dol, Philomena. 2007. A grammar of Maybrat: a language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Notes on this source: Mayhapeh dialect. According to Dol (2007:9), this dialect is spoken in Ayawasi, Kokas, Mosun, Konya, Kumurkek.

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Headword IPA Glosses
-a-a

n.inal.‘husband’

aa

INT.‘int’

aa

n.‘rope’

a-a-

MARKER.‘POSS’

-ae-ˈae

v.prep.‘at’

aeˈae

adv.man.‘indeed, yes (affirmative)’

aeae

INTERJ.‘yes’

-afa-afa

v.‘invite’

-afa-afa

v.‘move’

afaafa

n.‘k.o. leaf’

-afan-afan

v.‘give name’

afanafan

n.‘caterpillar’

afan kmeafan kme

n.comp.‘k.o. caterpillar’

-afat-afat

v.‘place between’

afiaˈfi

n.‘roof, sago leaf’

-afit-afit

v.‘bite’

afosafos

n.‘k.o. treebark’

afuafu

n.‘k.o. forest taro’

ahax

n.‘frog’

-ahmun-axmun

n.inal.‘chest’

ahnataxnat

n.‘spirit deceased relative’

-ai-ˈai

v.‘hit’

-ai-ai

v.‘plant’

aiˈai

pron.‘alone’

-aif-aif

v.‘spend the night’

-aim-ˈaim

v.‘cook’

-aim-aim

v.‘live’

-aim-aim

n.inal.‘wing’

ainain

n.‘drum’

-air-air

n.inal.‘foot of tree’

-ais-ais

v.intr.‘come down’

-ait-ait

v.‘eat’

aitait

pron.‘3m, he’

-aka-aka

v.‘shape’

-aka-aka

v.intr.‘wind (e.g. a road)’

-akah-akax

v.‘dig’

akahakax

adv.loc.‘above’

-akan-ˈakan

‘eye’

-akan-akan

n.inal.‘stone of fruit, seed, testicle’

-akas-akas

n.inal.‘blister’

-akat-akat

n.inal.‘scar’

-ake-ake

n.inal.‘fruit’

-ake-ˈake

v.‘tie’

akenaken

n.‘canoe’

-akit-akit

v.‘hope’

-ako-ako

v.‘not want’

akoako

n.‘cave’

akohakox

n.‘turtle’

-aku-aku

n.inal.‘daughter of female’

-aku-aku

v.adj.‘young’

-akuo-akuo

v.‘feast’

-akuoh-akuox

v.‘scrape’

-akuon-akuon

v.‘time’

-akus-akus

v.‘leave behind’

akusakus

ADV.‘left behind’

-akut-akut

n.inal.‘son of female’

amam

n.‘traditional rain cape, mat, letter’

-ama-ama

v.mot.‘come’

amahˈamax

n.‘house’

amah kiyamamax kijam

n.‘hospital’

amah sinamax sin

n.‘bamboo floor’

-ame-ame

v.‘stab’

-ame-ame

v.‘strengthen’

amesames

n.‘black couscous’

-ami-ami

v.‘stab, pierce’

amkafuaˈŋkafu

‘k.o. fern’; ‘Merremia cf. peltata’

-amo-ˈamo

v.mot.‘go’

-amos-amos

v.‘live’

amotamot

n.‘dew’

ampahampax

n.‘tip sheet (of sago tree)’

-amu-amu

v.‘suck’

-amu-amu

n.inal.‘uncle’

amuamu

pron.‘1P, we’

-amuah-ˈamuax ~ -ˈamuox

v.‘raw’

-amuoh-amuox

v.‘sew’

-amuom-amuom

n.inal.‘neck’

-amus-amus

v.‘wash’

-ana-ana

n.inal.‘head’

anaˈana

pron.‘3P, they’

anaana

n.‘fence’

-ana frak-ana frak

n.inal.comp.‘skull’

-anes-anes

v.adj.‘old’

aniaania

pron.‘each other’

-aniah-aniax

v.‘collect’

ankreankre

n.comp.‘sago leaf’

-ano-ano

n.inal.‘sibling opposite sex’

anoano

n/adj?.‘female’

anuanu

pron.‘2P, you’

-ao-ˈao

n.inal.‘foot, leg’

-ao-ˈao

n.inal.‘sibling same sex’

-ao krem-ao krem

n.inal.comp.‘toe’

-ao m-aur-ao m-aur

n.inal.‘calf of leg’

-aof-aof

v.‘divide’

aofˈaof

n.‘sago’

-aoh-aox

v.‘not care’

-aom-aom

n.inal.spat.‘outside’

-aon-ˈaon

v.adj.‘sharp’

-aos-aos

n.inal.‘shoulder’

-aot-aot

v.‘cut’

-apah-apax

v.‘dig soil’

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