OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Remijsen (2017): Matbat

fa¹ndu³n

Inflection/class: cl. II

•  v. tr. to need; to want.

ya²¹k fa¹ndu³n kama¹²mI want to chew betel mix

Etymology: Possibly from Dutch vandoen hebben ‘to need’; according to the native speakers from Maˈya