OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Josselin de Jong (1937): Woirata

Page number: 225

amu

•  body; contents; pit (of fruit); arrow of a blowgun; soul; life principle; piece (as a numerical classifier).njawa buah.

lawan amu ututhree pieces of gold (lawan itself means piece of gold here)

amu he

•  not genuine; falsified.

Literally: no body, no contents