OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  fault; debt.

Note: BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:27): mompehala ‘to punish’; MRB (Esser 1927:51): hala ‘fault, debt; penalty; remainder (of a distribution)’; TOLₕ (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:35): hala ‘debt, sin’. [PMP *salaq ‘sin, error, mistake’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 2918)]