OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

-wari[-ˈwari]

•  vt. turn over; turn around (something).membalik; mengubah arah menjadi berlawanan.

Naida ma lle gwari.I turned the pot upside down., Saya balik periuk tanah.

Ma lle gwarite medi bong ayang legeti.The pot is turned upside down and then placed on top of the stump., Balik periuk tanah, lalu taruh di atas kayu.

Etymology: Austronesian, PMP *balik ‘reverse, turn around’ (ACD). Certainly a seperate borrowing event from that of -wari 'return, go back'.

Etymology: bibref R003