OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  to oppose; to respond.

Note: KUL: molawani ‘answer, reply, respond’; WAWₕ (Manyambeang, Mahmoed, et al. 1982/1983:36, 41, 61): lawa ‘match, equal, counterpart’, lawa (stem) ‘to oppose’, molawani ‘to answer’; BNGₕ: lumafa ‘to answer’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:64): mbelawa ‘to oppose’. [PMP *laban ‘quarrel, be against’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 2029)]