OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  forest.

Note: KUL, MRN, MEK, TOL: inalahi. Note this form in origin is morphologically complex, probably meaning ‘(that which) is covered with trees’, although the corresponding active form of the verb has not been attested. [PMP *halas ‘[tree]’ (Dempwolff, Zorc, in Zorc 1971 0104)]