OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

iwe[iˈwɛ]

•  prep. be alike to; be similar to; similative preposition.seperti; serupa dengan.

Buku ba iwe neweng.That book is like mine., Buku itu seperti saya punya.

Grammatical note: The prepositional construction with iwe appears to be in free variation with the circumpositional construction with iwe ... gning.

See also: iwe ... gning