OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

iwe ... gning[iˈwɛ ... gˈniŋ]

•  circump. be alike to; be similar to; similative circumposition(eng).seperti; serupa dengan(ind).

Buku ba iwe neweng gning.That book is like mine.(eng), Buku itu seperti saya punya.(ind)

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

See also: iwe