OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  enemy.

Note: KUL, BNGₕ: bali ‘enemy’; MRB (Adriani 1900:295): iwali ‘enemy’; MRA (Adriani 1900:295), PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:82): uweli ‘enemy’; MEKₕ: bali ‘enemy’. [PAN *bali ‘equal, equivalent’ (Blust 1989 58)] Doublet *wali ‘spouse, companion’.