OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

-yebur[-jɛˈbur]

•  n. tongue.lidah.

Trongte ayebur ba mruka?Why is your tongue white?, Kenapa lidhamu putih?

Phonological note: In persons other than 2nd person singular, the sequence /ay/ is realised as [e], resulting in a sequence of two [e] vowels, e.g., /nayebur/ is realised as [neˀebur] 'my tongue'.