OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Fricke (2013): Hewa

bai

Variants: a'u pai; 'ita pai; rimu paiThe inflection paradigm b/w is probably borrowed from other Sika varieties that also have a glottalised 'w' in the first person. The alternative to use 'p' instead of 'w' in Hewa probably arose to assimilate the paradigm to the more common p/b paradigm in Hewa.

•  V. pound.tumbuk.

bai nalutumbuk padi

Etymology: PAN *bayu