OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Remijsen (2017): Matbat

ba⁴¹ŋ

Inflection/class: cl. II

(1) v. tr. to break.

(2) v. tr. to break off.

Grammatical note: not intr.; no instrument involved

See also: hɔ¹²kresult of ba⁴¹ŋ; se¹result of ba⁴¹ŋ

ba⁴¹ŋ hɛ³lte

•  v. to travel by boat (following the waterside).

Note: this is the common way to go upstream