OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 231

ete

•  tree; bamboo.

ete asa, etasa

•  tree leaf.

ete hononana

•  mouldered, rotting wood.

ete ihi

•  flower.

ete lalu

•  bamboo-node.

ete larin me āni

•  cure; apply medicine.

ete modo taru modo

•  growth; plants; vegetation.

ete mujara

•  sandalwood.

Literally: odorous wood

ete nakun

•  splinter.

ete totolana

•  split and flattened bamboo (used material for house-walls suchlike).pelupuh.

Literally: finely-split bamboo

ete waja

•  ink.

Literally: wood-gum