OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Remijsen (2017): Matbat

-ama¹²m

Inflection/class: cl. I

•  v. to eat betel; to chew tobacco.

ya²¹k kama¹²m ho²¹I am going to have some betel chew tobacco

Note: the chew tobacco mix consists of betel (na¹n) leaves/fruit, arecanut (mɔ⁴¹n) and chalk (fa⁴¹)