OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

‘support or assist someone to walk in procession’ (eng)

‘fern sp.’ (eng)

‘fine ash from burned leaves, paper etc.’ (eng)

‘rob, snatch away’ (eng)

‘woods, forest’ (eng)

‘succeed (a person), change (clothes), replace’ (eng)

‘eldest of two siblings’ (eng)

‘sap’ (eng)

‘sugar palm’ (eng); ‘Arenga saccharifera’ (lat)

‘water’ (eng)

‘move, transfer, move house’ (eng)

‘space under house, underneath’ (eng)

‘father’ (eng)

‘weave (mat, basket)’ (eng)

‘child’ (eng)

‘wind’ (eng)

‘hunt’ (eng)

‘what’ (eng)

‘lime’ (eng)

‘but, however’ (eng)

‘chin’ (eng)

‘name’ (eng)

‘gills’ (eng)

‘salt’ (eng)

‘plant rice, strictly the first process, make holes in the ground’ (eng)

‘liver’ (eng)

‘soursop’ (eng); ‘Anona squamosa’ (lat)

‘roof, thatch’ (eng)

‘body’ (eng)

‘cut off something hanging up high, tap sugar palm’ (eng)

‘climb (tree)’ (eng)

‘ashes’ (eng)

‘pay’ (eng)

‘monkey’ (eng)

‘brave’ (eng)

‘west wind’ (eng)

‘rotten (of food)’ (eng)

‘snore’ (eng)

‘tree’ (eng); ‘Eugenia’ (lat)

‘carry on the back’ (eng)

‘permit, allow’ (eng)

‘valley, field’ (eng)

‘anchor’ (eng)

‘forest tree with nuts’ (eng); ‘Aleurites moluccana’ (lat)

‘house’ (eng)

‘trainee for (pagan) priesthood’ (eng)

‘other’ (eng)

‘axe’ (eng)

‘return, go back’ (eng)

‘borrow’ (eng)

‘widow’ (eng)

‘provisions for journey’ (eng)

‘change, alter’ (eng)

‘sell’ (eng)

‘tree sp., fruit small, eaten by birds’ (eng)

‘chaff’ (eng)

‘cudgel, beat against something’ (eng)

‘box, trunk’ (eng)

‘childless, infertile’ (eng)

‘land, district’ (eng)

‘powder from palm fronds used for caulking boats or as tinder’ (eng)

‘palm sp.’ (eng)

‘log, fallen tree’ (eng)

‘stone’ (eng)

‘seed (of fruit)’ (eng)

‘follow’ (eng)

‘below (lower than), downwards’ (eng)

‘carry (general term)’ (eng)

‘pig’ (eng)

‘shallow (where sea bed is elevated)’ (eng)

‘fight seriously, kill each other fighting’ (eng)

‘afternoon’ (eng)

‘castor-oil plant’ (eng)

‘feather, crude word for pubic hair’ (eng)

‘deaf’ (eng)

‘bent, crooked’ (eng)

‘fish roe’ (eng)

‘alive, live’ (eng)

‘semen’ (eng)

‘give’ (eng)

‘turn round, revolve’ (eng)

‘ignorant’ (eng)

‘spread out, unfold’ (eng)

‘turn over, turn around’ (eng)

‘cloud’ (eng)

‘pour’ (eng)

‘large grass sp.’ (eng)

‘white’ (eng)

‘leg between knee and ankle’ (eng)

‘boil’ (eng)

‘hang on a rope’ (eng)

‘lip(s)’ (eng)

‘charcoal’ (eng)

‘write’ (eng)

‘speckled, multicoloured (of fowls)’ (eng)

‘maize’ (eng)

‘pull’ (eng)

‘small beetle’ (eng)

‘bamboo water container’ (eng)

‘fruit’ (eng)